Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon last week at Aberdeen Proving Ground (Md.), a fringe of people stood behind a hemp rope. A soldier passed down the line proffering a roll of cotton batting. The people were advised to stuff bits of the cotton into their ears, stand on their toes, gape their mouths. A moment later there broke forth from eight sinister-nosed 75mm. anti-aircraft guns a maddening, vicious cacaphony that made trouser-legs tremble and skirts sway in waves of force. High in the bright ceiling, some 2,000 ft. above, innocent bits of cotton appeared, no bigger than those...
...University was enjoined to permit Architect Warren to erect his inscriptional balustrade Furore Teutonico Diruta; Dono Americano Restituta, on the ground that it was part of the original architectural plan approved by University authorities years...
...these hoardings in bad they have made each and every U. S. coffee-drinker spend about 50? more per year for his coffee than he otherwise would. The U. S. coffee-drinker spends about $2.20 for raw coffee imported, pays a goodly extra sum to have it roasted, ground, tinned...
With eleven frantic Washington students periodically hanging onto him or bumping against him. Russell Saunders of Southern California ran up and down a field in Seattle and sometimes stooped to touch the ball against the ground. Southern California 48. Washington...
...first game took place in 1895, when the University forces journeyed to West Point and ground out a 4 to 0 victory on a rain-soaked field. Before a group of some 1,000 spectators, Charles Brewon '96 pounded his way through the Cadet eleven and finally crossed the line for the sole touchdown of the afternoon, which then counted four points...