Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...States-Washington, Massachusetts, Missouri, Kansas. New Hampshire-the fate of Governors depended on the final count, a recount, or perhaps on the tally of absentee ballots. Election oddities bubbled out of the county tallies: in Lincoln County, N. Mex., old stamping-and-shooting ground of Billy the Kid, Willkie and Roosevelt were tied. So were they in Gilpin County, Colo., in Marinette County, Wis. In almost uninhabited Armstrong County, S. Dak., nobody voted...
...would double the August capacity, give P. & W. a production rate of 17,000 to 20,000 engines a year by late 1941. Said Charles Sorensen: "I did not believe such a stupendous job could be done in such a short time." Then he went back to Detroit, broke ground for an $11,000,000 engine plant there before he got his contract...
This last four days of rain has practically changed the Business School field back into the swamp that it originally was. This soggy ground makes today's outcome more unpredictable, for anything can happen when both teams start skidding and tripping...
...Lect have enabled him to map, for the first time, the surface layers of the earth in the Newe England area down to the mysterious mantle, where the high velocity. of 5.2 miles per second was recorded. Dr. Lect said that the laws and conditions applying deep under ground are still imperfectly known...
Through a delightful realm of fantasy, burlesque, satire, medieval curiosa and gentle moralizing wander countless strange folk, such as the Cockney knight, Sir Meliagrance ("Yes, Ma'am, in 'arf a minute"). Typical episode: Lancelot stuck his sword in the ground, and went over to examine the wound. . . . "You've cut open my liver" said the man accusingly...