Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the fire burned out, five barns had burned to the ground. Damages were about $40,000. Said Boise's Mayor J. L. Edlefsen: "I fail to see ... what the department could have done." Said Fire Chief W. E. Foster: "It was as hard for our firemen as anyone else to watch those animals burn to death...
...lane of Storm Troopers as wave upon wave of throaty cheers thundered down the long hall. As is traditional, apple-cheeked Rudolf Hess, deputy leader, opened the Congress; Julius Streicher, rabid Jew hater, welcomed the Führer and the party members to Nurnberg, Streicher's own stamping ground. And as is traditional, Hitler did not address the first session, instead sat messiah-like on the haupttribüne while rasping-voiced Adolf Wagner, Munich Nazi leader, read the Fuhrer's Proclamation. Nazis laud the Proclamation as the coming year's party program, indicating in vague generalities...
...square-rigged sailing vessel Joseph Conrad with Alexis Troonin at the wheel; its Newport-to-Bermuda race with William S. Gubelmann's square-rigger Seven Seas; by arriving in Hamilton harbor 55 sec. ahead after racing 10 days, 1 hour, 57 sec. The Seven Seas challenged on the ground that the Joseph Conrad crossed the finish line under drive of an auxiliary engine, later withdrew its protest...
...newsreel plunged them into such a bloodbath of visual horrors as few of them had ever imagined. Shown throughout the U. S. these were the first frankly gruesome newsreels of the Shanghai shambles to reach the U. S. Hundreds of feet of this hastily, dangerously made record had been ground out by cameramen under fire or within a few minutes after shellburst or bomb-explosion. They tell, as pitilessly as only the camera can, what war means to the flesh it tortures. Mobs stream to shelter from an air raid. After a shellburst in a crowded street, corpses bright with...
...screen truthfully according to human values. They should not lie about them.") At the sight of Socialist Norman Thomas climbing into the ring to join Professor Eastman's attack, Publisher Quigley retired to a neutral corner. Paramount News Assignment Editor William P. Montague took his place, gave ground a little when he admitted that newsreels perhaps tended to be superficial (see below) but blamed the public's insistence on being entertained at all costs. "To get a camera and go to work" was exactly what critics of Hollywood ought to do, said Ohio State University's scholarly...