Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trial in Manhattan last year for smuggling alcohol, an Alcohol Tax Unit investigator introduced into the record excerpts from 72 tapped telephone conversations. After Nardone was sentenced to three years in prison and his companions to a year and a day each, they appealed their convictions on the ground that Section 605 of the Federal Communications Act of 1934 forbids any person not authorized by the sender to intercept or divulge telephone messages. Denied new trials by a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, they got them last week when Justice Roberts' majority decision held that "to recite...
Zoologically, the duckbill is most remarkable as a link between species. It is a mammal and suckles its young-from secreting pores, not teats. But as do birds, it lays eggs. Like fish and turtle, it feeds on water-life. Like the mole, it burrows under ground. Like the duck, it has a broad bill and webbed feet. Like some snakes, it carries venom (male only, in a spur on its hind leg). And it has a beaver-like tail which makes it seem double-ended. Its fur is coarse, runs in color from dark brown to silver grey...
...Idaho, U. S. highway 30 N enters the Snake River Valley, a wild region of fantastic rock formations, ghost towns, ice caverns, dinosaur fields, waterfalls, hot springs, reclamation projects, historic legends, lava beds. In some places, because of the underground rivers, "a person can put his ear to the ground and hear deep and troubled rumblings as if a mighty ocean rolled far under." Thirty-eight miles from Pocatello a three-mile side road leads to Emigrant Rock, where travelers wrote their names in axle grease as early as 1849. Forty-four miles on, another side road branches...
...What makes the Disney camera unique is its towering, 14-ft. framework. The camera peers vertically down from the top of this iron structure through several levels, set below it like the grooved shelves in a baker's pie-wagon. On the lower levels, various elements of back ground drawn in relative perspective may be superimposed, one over the other, imparting an illusion of depth in the finished print. Above these backgrounds the animation cels are grouped. In this process an average 750-foot Disney short takes two weeks to be photographed. After that it is taken...
...ground floor of the White House there is a big room lined with large, locked, glass-fronted bookcases. This is the White House Library. Spacious but bare, it has only a few hundred books on the white-framed shelves designed to hold almost 2,000. Last week a committee representing the American Booksellers Association carried to Washington 200 more volumes for the great open spaces on the White House shelves-a collection of 34 biographies...