Word: ground
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a long fight in the courts, begun by Mr. Barnett and his onetime guardian, Elmer S. Bailey, was terminated by Judge John C. Knox of the U. S. District Court of New York. On the ground that Mr. Barnett was and is incompetent to handle his fortune, Judge Knox ruled that the gifts to Mr. Barnett's wife and to the Baptists were null & void, that his fortune must be turned over to the Secretary of the Interior for management. Said Judge Knox: "He [Mr. Barnett] is a harmless, kindly, mentally undeveloped man, who was extremely bored...
Since the Soviet press has been largely inaccessible to Opposition leaders for many months, this concession was of the highest impor tance, and suggested that a tangible ground of compromise between Dic tator Stalin and Comrade Trotzky may have been found at last...
...England, a plot of ground was discovered in London near Fleet Street, that had never been built on. Diggers unearthed "15 feet of solid history," relics dating from the Paleolithic period (with a gap from Saxon times to the 13th Century) to the present. ¶Workmen digging for foundations for the new Bank of England building turned up the leather soles of Roman women's shoes. Newspaper stories were written to the effect that styles have changed little...
Captain Arthur V. Rogers, British destroyer of 32 German planes, jumped. He felt the canvas mechanism of his parachute start functioning.* He hit the ground, was picked up dead. Captain Rogers was testing the Angel of Los Angeles. He circled, went into a nose dive, saw the ground coming up to meet...
...Opinions vary on height above ground a jumper must be for his parachute to open safely. Some say he falls 150 feet before floating; soberest flyers prefer 1,000 feet to light safely...