Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spirit photographs-the laying on of hands, deep breathings, vegetarianism, fastings, formulae of monotonous sayings of the genre of Coue's, with its smug 'Every day in every way I am getting better and bet-ter'-these are those rivers and tributaries that feed the encroaching sea of modern occultism. It is the business of the church to take her stand upon the sayings of the Master to the effect that 'an evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign'; that 'the kingdom of God cometh not with observation...
...Moon has sharp eyes, he may have noticed little specks moving through the gray-green scum of Earth's land, sea and inner atmosphere?specks far fleeter than the ones he had noticed in previous centuries crawling over the wide watery expanses; specks that now flit in a few days' time from sea to sea, from continent to continent...
...down to and around the terrible tip of unknown Africa, would have swelled with pride to see Lieutenants Moreira and Neves-Terriera head out over the broad Atlantic for the Madeira Islands, some 800 miles away. . . . Nightfall did not find them in Funchal. Their plane had pitched to the sea, as if crippled, but it was not crippled?only out of gas. And they were hard by the shores of Porto Santo...
Near Visby, "city of roses and ruins" on Sweden's island, Gotland, in the Baltic Sea, Professor Nils Lithberg came upon the ruins of a city at least 1,500 years old, which gave promise of yielding relics far older, relics of the Bronze and early Iron Ages. Excavations in Visby have turned up dwelling sites 4,000 years...
...Barrow, clouds and a split propeller had frustrated three attempted return flights. Wilkins advised Major Lanphier, his second-in-command, to bide at Fairbanks for good weather before going to join him in their big biplane, the Detroiter. The Barrow base was nearly complete for flights over the Arctic Sea to terra incognita...