Word: terrae
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hellmut de Terra, a geologist turned archaeologist, is not after gold, but bones and stones. In the last 15 years he has carried his pick over much of the world's surface on the trail of prehistoric man. Dr. de Terra's current quarry is the late Ice Age in central Mexico...
...Terra picked up the scent last November. He made his first strike in an area that he had not considered promising: a handful of stone artifacts-scrapers, drills and flaked stones-projecting from the eroded wall of a ravine near Teotihuacan, northeast of Mexico City. With this unexpected encouragement, he went to Tequixquiac, a spot known to be rich in fossilized remains of animals. Dr. de Terra hoped this would yield traces of hunters as well...
...couch while Mary read to him. In his black scull cap and snowy beard, Watts looked more & more like a Titian portrait. As he grew old, moral philosophy became his chief interest. In the last years of his life he would pause in the garden as he passed the terra cotta sundial given him by his wife, to look at his own motto upon it: "The Utmost for the Highest." "That is the best thing I ever did, to think of that motto," he used...
...cartoon called Island Hopping shows a steel-spring mannikin stepping triumphantly toward the Jap home fortress over Pacific islands which are not all terra firma...
...steeled himself to take three flights, in two years, and on the last one suggested that I do stunts with him. After two loops he looked back from the front seat and pointed straight down to terra firma. . . . I still recall the glassy look of his eyes...