Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fracture was never properly set and a year later his other leg was broken too. Toulouse-Lautrec became a dwarf, shortsighted, blubber-lipped, with a normal trunk and tiny, shriveled limbs. Only 4 ft. 6 in. high, he could not lift an ordinary suitcase off the ground, had special sausage-shaped luggage designed for him. Fortunately, although his aristocratic family could not stand the sight of him, they kept him well supplied with cash...
Dirigibles. For non-stop schedules to Japan, Australia, South America and Africa, the report recommends the economic superiority of helium-filled dirigibles carrying 200 passengers, estimates their cost at $4,000,000 each. Of their safety it says, "While their size makes them vulnerable in high winds when making ground contacts (which are no hardship whatever to airplanes-rather, an advantage), nevertheless, the impossibility of slowing an airplane down brings with it a certain element of risk not present in the dirigible...
...accident was a combination of the following three factors: 1) Static conditions encountered in the last portion of the flight which rendered the reception of radio range signals unintelligible. 2) The continuation of the flight into mountainous country at an altitude below the higher mountains without the aid of ground visibility or radio signals to definitely identify position. 3) A change in the weather caused by the approach of an unpredicted cold front." In spite of this official reticence, members of the board "unofficially" hinted to reporters that they believed the pilot was to blame...
...After 18,000 hours in the air (an average of 2½ hours a day for 20 years) during which he completed 2,400,000 miles of flying, United Air Lines veteran pilot, Captain Jack Knight, was retired to a ground job in Chicago as director of public education. Flyer Knight, now cadaverous, soulful-looking and 44, has more transport hours and miles to his record than any pilot in the U. S. ¶ One night last week, just after announcing his engagement to a Hampshire typist, Britain's Flying Officer A. E. Clouston, using the De Havilland Comet...
...assured the meeting that the Japanese are at least kind to animals. Said he: "The Japanese people are commonly a mild-mannered people. . . . From ancient times, mendicant priests have carried a shakujo, or staff, to the top of which are affixed clanging metal rings. By striking it on the ground they would frighten away worms and insects that might be in their path to prevent trampling upon them. And even modern universities hold memorial services for animals dissected in the study of anatomy in the medical schools...