Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...escaped the battering. This week, the Des Moines Register's farm editor reckoned that upwards of 50 million bushels was on the ground in Iowa. In Minnesota an estimated 25% of the crop was leveled...
...Brooklyn, a taxpayer's suit had asked that Oliver Twist and The Merchant of Venice be banned from New York City public schools on the ground that Fagin and Shylock were "antiSemitic and anti-religious." Last week, State Supreme Court Justice Anthony J. DiGiovanna said no. He held that the test was whether either book had been "maliciously written" to rouse prejudice, ruled both Dickens and Shakespeare in the clear...
...Solid Ground." The object of such honors, perhaps more concentrated than any other composer living or dead has ever received on a single occasion, was a man of whom one Parisian wrote: "Chopin can best be denned as a trinite charmante. His personality, his playing and his compositions were in such harmony that they could no more be separated than can the features of one face...
...composer who discovered his special niche at the keyboard at seven, with his first polonaise, and seldom strayed from it. His family and friends implored him to write operas, symphonies, oratorios. But he called the piano "my solid ground; on that I stand the strongest." His compositions, with their poetry, fire and freshness, never came easily: "Before I have said my last word, I must go through horrible pangs and tribulations, with many tears and sleepless nights...
When it's dark on the Radcliffe Quadrangle, you can't always tell your date from a hole in the ground. Anyway, that's what happened to a student last night; he plunged in up to his ears, and it wasn...