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Word: grounds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alfred T. Varney, was halfway through the window of a second story apartment when the occupant, a woman, saw him and started screaming. Stahley and a couple of companions heard him and stepped out to meet him. The thief came tearing down the fire escape and arrived on the ground just in time to run, with all his might, into a terrific punch from Stahley. He immediately fell to the ground and resigned himself to slumber...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skip Stahley Fells Burglar With His Powerhouse Punch | 2/2/1938 | See Source »

Surgeon General Thomas Parran was unduly grave as he broke ground for a new group of U. S. Public Health Service re-search buildings near Washington fortnight ago. No one in the nation knew better than he the necessity of hurrying the construction and use of the establishment. For in his Washington office lay a heap of data, accumulated by inquiring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sickness Survey | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...provide the use of their parlors, personnel and equipment, a standard casket, and a grave. Graves at such a bargain price are possible, said Mr. Flynn, because many families have old ones waiting from more prosperous years, often the church donates one, and many estates have remnants of hallowed ground which heirs cannot use and therefore donate to charitable enterprises such as Mr. Flynn's proposed "clinics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Parlors for Paupers | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...husband, who appeared disappointingly weak, was having difficulty keeping her fur cost, which he carried, off the ground. Further, he displayed what appeared to be an unhealthy interest in the library's collection of ballet works. Mrs.Gregory took a more practical view of things and requested a list of all the books on Sarawak that the library had. Later in the day attendants sent the list to her suite at the Copley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sarawak Royal Gire, and Her Wrestler Husband, Inspect Library's Theatre And Ballet Collections | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...World War. Repurchasing its stock from Zeiss, Bausch & Lomb tackled a job no other U. S. concern has ever attempted-matching German precision in making optical instruments. Today, with some 4,000 workers and a select inner circle of German-trained craftsmen, the Rochester lensmakers turn out lenses ground accurate to a millionth of an inch, at a profit of about a million dollars a year. Since 1926 when Founder J. J. Bausch died, the company has been headed by Son Edward, chairman of the board, now 83 and still active enough to enjoy bowling. He and numerous relatives have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Long Grind | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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