Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There was an old mythologist who was supposed, every time his feet touched the ground, to redouble his strength. When I go about the country ... I feel that I regain my strength by just meeting the American people...
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt made this statement at Boise, Idaho, last week the "mythologist" to whom he referred was presumably the giant, Antaeus, whom Hercules defeated by lifting him off the ground and strangling him. Even more justifiably, he might have compared himself to a mythical hero with whom his listeners in the Northwest would have been more familiar-the lumberjack giant, Paul Bunyan, who spanned the Rocky Mountains in one stride, left lakes in his footprints and lit his pipe with fir trees...
...Ministry for Propaganda and National Enlightenment, headed by Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, a bitter rival of General Goring, word was put about that "Hitler has turned down the draft text of a 'hold for release' press announcement of Dr. Schacht's resignation on the ground that nothing has been decided...
...weeks later with two dogs and a native hunter Dr. Chapin walked out of a little Congo mining camp into the jungle. The dogs flushed a pair of birds, the native fired, the male of the pair dropped to the ground. It was Dr. Chapin's long-sought bird. Of the pheasant family, it was feathered in metallic blacks, blues, greens, reds, had a long pink neck, small head, a curious, strawlike tuft protruding from its forehead. He named it "Congo Peacock,'' soon learned it was fairly common, traveled in pairs, but lived only in virgin jungle...
Photographer Mingalone picked Old Orchard Beach, Me., for secret experiments in overhead photography from a cluster of 30 hydrogen-filled stratosphere balloons. He had successfully ground out several reels over the local country club golf course while a ground crew towed him from spot to spot when suddenly a stiff gust snapped the 200-ft. sash-weight cord anchor line...