Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pressure area, fitful with Spring, drifted eastward across the land last week, suddenly squatted over northern Indiana. Down to earth raced many winds, flapping from their wings an enormous flutter of feathery snow. Forty-four hours later when the low pressure area was ready to move on again, the Midwest was blanketed beneath one of its worst snowfalls in recorded weather history...
...Bank, Mitsubishi Bank cluster near each other (12), but the National City Bank of New York is aloof (14). Number 13 is the lucky site of the Imperial Hotel, "most popular in the Far East," refuge of Occidentals during the fire, completely proof against mere earthquakes, though conceivably the earth might open and swallow...
...Sell All Thou Hast!" The first axiom of western statecraft is that religion has no place in politics. "But if religion is not needed in politics," blinks Mr. Gandhi, "then where on earth is it needed?" Perfectly infuriating to Englishmen is this sort of thing, which they call "sickening cant...
...Braeburn Road. San Diego, Calif. Last week he deeded No. 4440 Braeburn Road, an adjacent two-car garage and a pair of automobiles to King David, Gedeon, Barak, Samson. Jephthae, Samuel and sundry other mighties of ancient Palestine. Positive is he that they are shortly to reappear on earth. Said he: "I have purposely landscaped the place with palm and olive trees so these princes of the universe will feel at home when they come to offer man the chance to become perfect...
Members of this organization designate themselves as Bible Students. Their creed holds that Biblical prophecies govern all earthly events. By careful scrutiny of Holy Writ, the Bible Students have discerned that three periods of time, termed "cosmos," prevail in human affairs. Cosmos I began with Adam, ended with the Flood. Cosmos II began with the Flood, ended with the World War. Cosmos III, begun in 1914, will end in 2874, when "The Kingdom of God" will fill the whole world. An erroneous prophecy that the year 1928 would provide a cataclysm- ''Nations will battle; the dead will...