Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kirkland-Lowell game was marred by a muddy field which forced both teams to give up their usual ground patterns for pass offensives. Both Deacon tallies were scored after punts had given Kirkland the ball deep in Lowell territory...
...merits of the elective and appointive systems, there was provision that after three years the Council should review itself and its constitution. The Council has now arranged to do this: it has in fact outdone itself in self-analysis by appointing two committees to cover the ground...
Fiedler is still Anderson's chief adviser, and the orchestra's concerts are the main testing ground for his new works. "I watch the audience when I'm trying out something new. A composer can't assume that he knows more than anyone else...
...trade barriers were lifted. Economists are afraid that the dislocations necessary to attain the long-range objective of integration would interfere with Western Europe's urgent short-range objective of earning more dollars. Politicians are afraid that economic hardships would give the Communists a chance to recapture lost ground. Said London's Economist last week: "[It] is not possible ... to telescope into one great act of policy a process which took over three generations to complete in the preindustrial United States...
Sound & Fury. For all their persuasive details, such arguments were built on shaky economic ground. Were gold miners entitled to a raise? Since 1927 the price of gold has gone up 69%, while wholesale prices in general have risen only 60%. Actually, a free market would not change the price unless the U.S. raised its official price also, because the Treasury is required by law to keep gold at $35 an ounce. While a gold boost would give Britain and other U.S. allies a modest profit on their gold holdings, the greatest beneficiary might be Russia, probably the world...