Word: globe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work of 49-year-old Lee Lawrie, member of Washington's Federal Art Commission, long famed for his work on Nebraska's State Capitol, it shows a beardless, youthful Atlas stepping up to a granite pedestal with bis left foot, bearing on his shoulders a tremendous astronomical globe whose axis will point at the North Star. The whole thing will be 45 ft. tall, high as a four-story building, and so perfectly balanced that it needs no unusual armature. Sculptor Lawrie needed little help from professional astronomers to get his globe correct. His assistant...
...Zealand surgeons performed at Wellington an abdominal operation on globe-girdling Flyer Harold Gatty, now prospecting the weekly Pan American Airways service between California, Honolulu, Pago Pago, New Zealand...
...Boston Globe declared that they had learned of Landis' appointment "from a highly reliable source." The only official sources through which this rumor could be confirmed, namely the President and Fellows of the University, could not be contacted at the time the statement appeared. Edmund M. Morgan '02, professor of Law and acting dean of the school, declared that he had no statement to make on the subject...
Hearstwriter Damon Runyon added in all seriousness: "Journalism has lost its all-time No. 1 genius. ... It doesn't seem possible. It doesn't seem possible that with so many Lilliputians of humanity on the face of the globe, this giant has been removed...
...crowded the Civic Auditorium while 5,000 were turned away. In Chicago 30,000 attended a series of meetings in the Loop district; in Philadelphia the Mission lunched with Mayor S. Davis Wilson and city officials during a three-day visit attracting 20,000 listeners. In St. Louis the Globe-Democrat issued daily supplements detailing Mission activities and one young man declared that the team's appearance had dissuaded him from suicide. Everywhere Missionary Jones was the headline speaker, driving home repeatedly his message to the effect that: "Religion is at the judgment bar. America must make her choice...