Word: grounding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cold Ground. In crowded Britain, where many cemeteries have three layers of dead and the burial vaults are crammed with urns, ash-scattering is more common than in any other Christian country. More than 76% of the 50,000 Britons cremated in 1949 had their remains scattered. Said an English girl: "I scattered the ashes of my father in the Thames . . . where he had so often fished and boated ... So much better than delivering him into the cold ground or placing the urn of his ashes among hundreds of others, like another bottle on a store shelf." Britain...
Since 1884, the Roman Catholic Church has formally disapproved cremation. Many Hebrews also frown on it, though Sir Philip Sassoon of the great Jewish banking family had a bomber squadron scatter his ashes. The Church of England sanctioned ash-scattering in 1944, if disposal were on consecrated ground. No Britain of top prominence has yet availed himself of the method. Although the last two Archbishops of Canterbury were cremated, as was Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, none asked that his ashes be scattered. (But South Africa's Jan Christian Smuts had his ashes scattered on a hill at his farm...
...steel industry gets most of its iron ore from the vast ranges of northern Minnesota, where the rich, rust-like dust can be shoveled up from the ground. But by 1970, or sooner, the open-pit ranges of Minnesota will be scraped bare...
Beneath the Minnesota ground, however, there is a low-grade ore called taconite, which has never been developed-for lack of a cheap, practical way to extract it. Several years ago, researchers at the University of Minnesota perfected a method of crushing the rock, extracting the ore by magnets and compressing it into pellets containing 60% iron (v. 50% for the open-pit ores...
...lines where his riflemen could see him. Officers were shot down at his side (three of his brigadiers were wounded), but he was never hit, even escaped malaria. He lost 30 pounds in 30 days, but on Jan. 3, 1943 the troops had Buna. It was the first Allied ground victory of the Pacific...