Word: earthward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Parachute. Miss Myrtle Jarbo plunged from a stunt plane at Toledo, Ohio, secured to a parachute. As she floated earthward, her parents (long divorced) rushed across the flying field to greet her, plunged unexpectedly into each other's arms. Came love. Three days later they remarried...
Fire ate up Ely Court, fashionable school for finishing young ladies, at Greenwich, Conn. Red tongues danced upon a rooftree and gobbled earthward far faster than firemen could pump water from a nearby lake. Fleeing with such midnight garments and belongings as they could snatch up, the owners and principals, Miss Elizabeth Ely and her sister, Mrs. Sara (sic) Parsons, could only give thanks that none but themselves, the housekeeper and some servants were in the long, tall building. The 100 or so young ladies were safely home for holidays. It was just 40 years since the Misses...
...twice daily) and concentrated on the dark-stained areas of its surface which remain fairly constant in their own cycle of changes and seem to indicate the existence of seasons on Mars-a 340-day summer and 347-day winter. Last week it was summer time on Mars' earthward hemisphere. The planet's ice cap was almost all melted. The stained areas showed the faint regular lines which some observers have called "canals." Their irregular spread, coupled with measurements of their heat, suggest that the stains are seasonal vegetation...
...published when these men are dead; every office maintains a grim and bulky index known as the "Morgue," which must be kept up to date from week to week and is generally entrusted to the care of some scarred battle-horse of a reporter, himself soon due to fare earthward on his last assignment. But if a personage dies at an awkward hour, if the announcement reaches the office just as the paper is going to press or the editor to the races, the obituary in the first edition is apt to be brief. And so it fell...
...before, took no notice when Lieutenant O. B. Anderson piloted the ship from her hangar and pointed her nose aloft. They did not hear how, warned by radio of approaching high winds, the RS-1 interrupted a flight of four hours and made for home; how, when she settled earthward and was being dragged indoors with ropes, the northwest wind so increased that she was buffeted about like a dory in breakers, until Lieutenant Anderson ordered the engines started, the ropes cast off, and took the ship aloft to fight for her life with her own strength...