Word: globe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ornamental arrangement of pylons and railings framing a reception plaza, a fountain playing in a great reflecting pool, the whole scaled low, designed simply, keeping the Broadway vista open. 3) Eric Gugler-A granite shaft 800 ft. high flanked by two large armillary spheres, one symbolic of the celestial globe, one of the planets; semicircular steps 400 ft. wide from the water to an esplanade...
Died. Joseph Gilpin Pyle, 77, of St. Paul, Minn., librarian of the James Jerome Hill Reference Library; onetime (1899-1903) editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and of the St. Paul Globe (1895-98, 1903-05); in St. Paul...
Senator Allen was away from Kansas at the time, touring the globe as professor of journalism with the University Afloat (TIME, Sept. 27, 1926 et seq). He got word in Berlin of the Murdocks' coup. He rushed home, tried to fight the Eagle with its own weapons, made no headway. In the spring of 1928 came the Levands, reputedly through the efforts of a wealthy Wichitan whom the Murdocks' Eagle had offended...
...opposite side of the globe from Ireland, off New Guinea in the Bismarck Archipelago, lies New Ireland. Last year the New Irishmen?black-skinned, woolly-haired, bug-eyed?saw a sight they had never seen before: a young white woman. They envied her mightily because, while they had only loincloths, she wore a bright red dress. Her chief reaction to them, though as recently as 30 years ago they were cannibals, was curiosity. For she was Dr. Hortense Powdermaker, anthropologist. Soon she made herself popular, by the U. S. political trick of baby-kissing and by getting herself adopted into...
...Earth were scaled down to the size of an ordinary library globe, the height to which man has ascended from it (43,166 ft.) would about equal the coating of shellac on the sphere. The greatest depth to which he has descended would about equal the thickness of the map paper. On the water-covered portion (7/10) he would have penetrated only a fractional part of the paper...