Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a silver arrow darted suddenly from the East (Roosevelt Field, L. I.), not over 500 feet from the ground, curved gracefully around Mines Field, Los Angeles, settled gently upon the turf. The thing that over 150 patient watchers had been awaiting, trembling with mingled anticipation and dread, had happened. The weary, perilous miles from coast to coast had been covered in 24 hours and 51 minutes. This was 2 hours faster than it had ever been done before...
Exceeding Small is the way in which the mills of God grind, as stated by Friedrich Von Logau in a much misquoted German poem.* In this play, the first offering of the Actors' Theatre this season, the mills ground a girl, Gert, and a boy, Ed. Ed, who earned $20 a week, married Gert. On his wedding night, he discovered that he had a weak heart and would soon die. The idea of suicide came to him like an inspiration or the thought of a journey. Gert did not wish to live any longer either; so Ed closed the window...
...best known and most significant painter of U. S. portraits lay for many years in an unmarked grave in the old General Central Burying Ground in Boston Common. In 1897 the Paint and Clay Club attached a bronze tablet in the form of a palette...
...Ground for the new theatre of the University Players Guild at Woods Hole. Massachusetts has already been broken, it was announced last night by T. J. Smith '30, manager of the Harvard Dramatic Club. The Guild, comprised of 25 players, ran a two months season at Falmouth last summer, netting a $11000 gross gain. As a result of this success, it plans to open the new $40.000 theatre next summer for two months, after which the players will perform during the winter season in New York City...
...13th Street near Sixth Avenue, Manhattan, John Markle, anthracite tycoon, helped Commander Evangeline Booth, of the Salvation Army, with a bit of digging, then turned, spade in hand, to acknowledge the cheers of many a Salvation Army cadet. Ground had been broken for the $500,000 John & Mary Markle residence-hotel for businesswomen. Said Henry Waters Taft, second youngest of the four Taft brothers and chairman of the Salvation Army Advisory Board: "He gives twice who gives quickly . . . he gives thrice who gives meekly...