Word: sublunar
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...followed the star to Bethlehem were astrologers. The Roman Catholic Church today condemns serious belief in astrology as a grave sin; but as a man of his time, the great St. Thomas Aquinas held that "the celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world." Among modern believers, the worst advertisement is Adolf Hitler, who had five astrologers charting a course for him. Perhaps the most surprising was J. P. Morgan: he regularly consulted Astrologer Evangeline Adams, who, when haled into court, did so accurate a horoscope of the judge's son that...
...space-singed A.P. waited 42 minutes, then filed a carefully sublunar story reporting that a ham operator near Columbus. Ohio, had now picked up the beep. "He suggested," said the A.P., "that it might be a signal from some kind of space vehicle." In A.P.'s second story British Broadcasting Corp. engineers pronounced that the signal was probably earthbound. The A.P. finally traced the beep to the "electronic groan" of an idling Russian teleprinter on the 20-megacycle band used by the Sputniks. (The teleprinter was on 20.025 mc.; the Sputnik frequency...
Some young Americans look upon great wealth as the goal of human endeavor, and look to law as the portal of this sublunar paradise, but if the young man has this idea when he studies law, as to his entering the profession, my only advice...
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