Word: earths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stewardess of a huge Air France Constellation just making ready to come in for a landing at Azores' Santa Maria airfield. The sky around her ship was clear, and laced with invisible, ether-borne messages linking the plane and its 48 passengers to the earth below...
That was the last link that held the Constellation and 48 lives to earth. Sometime, somehow, in the next few minutes a heavy cloud and the high peak of Mt. Redondo on Sao Miguel Island combined and snapped the threads. A truckman saw a flash of light on the mountain. Planes took off to search, and eight hours later a twisted, fire-blackened heap was sighted on the mountainside. In the Constellation's wreckage were its 48 dead, burned beyond recognition...
Until recently scientists knew little more than the nursery rhyme about why the earth has oceans and land, or why most of its high land masses are concentrated on one side, opposite the Pacific Ocean. If the earth condensed from gases or from meteorlike particles, as many theories have held, it should be smooth and symmetrical with a deep layer of water covering the whole surface...
...Millionaires", the idea is similar, but this two-act play covers much less ground than "Man and Superman," which has something to say about almost everything. Both plays deal with the affirmative man, who is in this case, an Egyptian doctor. This time, the Hell is on earth, and in the pursuit of its pleasures are a wealthy restless millionaires, her puerile sportsman of a husband, and their respective lovers. In the end, the millionaires finds a purpose for the power of money which she and her father have been accumulating for its own sake, in the doctor whom...
...know that this is my cause, and I'm going to stand here till hell freezes over," he declared. He reaffirmed his belief that salvation is impossible outside the Catholic Church and that the purpose of our life on earth is to secure salvation and said that would continue to teach this at St. Benedict...