Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tries to convince them of the value of a Harvard education. This writer offers a humble suggestion to Mr. Lamar, to wit: That the grass grows green in the Boston home pasture, and that diligent search in season may he worth a lot of hoeing on frost stiffened ground...
...Fifty to 75 leathery old prospectors refused to believe the geologists, the calamity howlers or anyone else. This week they were building log foundations for their tents, ordering prospectors' boilers (for thawing ground) and preparing to drive shafts to bedrock, if necessary, before surrendering...
Bidault, whose party has been losing ground to De Gaulle's followers, does not want an election. So the spunky little man will do his best to keep France's latest jerry-built cabinet from crashing down...
Balding Eagle Charles A. Lindbergh, 47, sometime adviser to the U.S. Air Force, made one of his increasingly rare appearances before a camera lens. He was snapped at an air-ground demonstration at Grafenwöhr, Germany, chatting with Lieut. General John K. Cannon, U.S. Air Force commander in Europe...
...crowd, which seldom gets noisy until the last quarter-mile of a race, sensed that the climax would come early and set up a swelling roar. Then, suddenly, it was all over. With Capot saving ground on the rail, he nosed ahead on the turn. Coaltown tried but could not keep up. Down the backstretch Capot's lead lengthened to two lengths, then to four. Brooks hit Coaltown only once, got no response, and did not punish him needlessly...