Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show for us this noon 'just to show that we don't mind the weather.' For half an hour he dived his ship from the cloudy sky, skimming over our heads at 400 miles an hour, went into hair-raising rolls a few feet off the ground, and drove almost vertically into...
...Germans actually lost contact with them since, so polite was this party, Nazi orders were not to cross the French border. By week's end the French had yielded, the Germans retaken virtually all German territory except a few ridges which the French retained as better strategic ground for defense than their own border hills. French heavy artillery busied itself dropping shells into a 20-square-mile area north of Sierck in the hope of landing one on Nazi field headquarters, believed to be somewhere near Castle Thorn. The French withdrawal from the Warndt Forest was effected four days...
...largest decrease in the number of honors candidates has been in the English Department which now has only 33 per cent of its concentrators out for honors, with Music, Astronomy, and Classics losing ground...
...Bellboys stopped the Commuters cold on the ground, but a second quarter pass from Lee Hartstone to left and Mel Avergun provided the winning margin...
...even fight Mr. Conant on his own ground by granting him his sweeping generalization of the classless society. But it is impossible to concede to him that such a society is so easy of attainment. Mr. Conant must be over-impressed with the importance of his profession if he believes that education is a force powerful enough to go far in annihilating caste barriers. It seems necessary--even if it is trite--to remind him that equality of ability and equality of training do not mean equality of opportunity. Economic power still continues to be a decisive factor...