Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...benefit of some candidate, it is the result of their social kinship and common political purpose. . . . It is a sign of socialism last week. Defense Commissar Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov and his Marshals and Generals of the Red Army cracked out speeches all over Russia in their hoarse, parade-ground voices, calling the election "our Mobilization!" and making vigorous efforts to get out the vote...
...cold in Chicago last Sunday, when the Washington Redskins played the local Bears for the professional football championship, that they sent asphalt burners out onto Wrigley Field to try to thaw it. They might as well have sent Frigidaires. Because cleats would slip like ice skates on the frozen ground, the teams took to the field wearing basketball shoes. In the stands 14,000 Chicagoans shivered. Some 1,200 Washingtonians were there too, because in the single season they have had a major-league professional team, Washingtonians have gone crazy about the game...
...Dutch-owned island of Java has been a rich hunting ground for investigators of the human family tree. In 1890 Professor Eugene Dubois found the first fossil bones of the famed apeman, Pithecanthropus erectus. Another early type found in Java, Homo soloensis, shows affinities with the Neanderthalers of Europe and the Rhodesian men of Africa. The fragmentary skull of a child, christened Homo modjokertensis, appeared to be in extremely ancient ground, but its features were too undeveloped for exact anatomical comparison. Two years ago primitive tools were found in Java, including points, scrapers, cores, and hand-axes typical...
Chicago is the capering ground of the most showmanly administrator of public health on earth-Dr. Herman Niels Bundesen, Berlin-born Dane, who as president of Chicago's Board of Health and by means of spectacular propaganda, keeps vast Chicago an exceptionally healthy city in which to be born & live...
...Brinton Smith, a railroad & utility banker. In Philadelphia, where such things count, Edward B. Smith & Co. was socially the equal of Chas. D. Barney & Co., and financially it was not scorned even by Drexel & Co. (branch of J. P. Morgan). During the War, however, Edward B. Smith & Co. lost ground, and the founder's son Albert and a group of young partners headed by John W. Cutler had to start almost from scratch. As in C. D. Barney, the Manhattan office became the head office but, instead of concentrating on the brokerage business, E. B. Smith...