Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japan's defense of her actions on the ground that the United States and Great Britain have done similar things in the past doesn't hold water because the United States broke no treaties in similar enterprises, Castle said...
Scheduled for completion in January, 1939, construction on the new building will start early in March, Business Manager Aldrich Durant said yesterday. Ground will be broken for the new Hemenway building, to stand between Gannett House and Walter Hastings Hall on Massachusetts Avenue, about March 15. The building will probably be ready for use next September...
...test case arose out of an unenforced order issued by the California Railroad Commission in 1933 directing the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to reduce its gas rates by $1,744,681 a year. The company got a three-judge Federal court to enjoin enforcement of the order on the ground that the commission had not properly considered the cost of reproduction in setting the rates. When the injunction was appealed to the Supreme Court last term it was upheld by a 4-to-4 decision, Justice Sutherland not voting. But after Hugo Black succeeded Willis Van Devanter, the Court voted...
...dispossessed. He was afraid he would not find him if he stayed in the hospital any longer. He felt all right, so he got up, wrapped his pajama-clad hulk in a blanket, clambered over the window sill, slid down 35 feet of water pipe to the ground...
...disappeared in England, or 3) have changed their meaning since emigration from England. Listed in Part III are such everyday words as build (in the sense of "construct"), which was only in literary use in England before it became common coin in the U. S.; bull, bimch, bumper, burial ground, bum, bunkum, boss, bluff (derived from the game of poker), business (meaning an occupation or industry...