Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...future to social work in England as soon as "calumnies and slander" have abated. A stanch little pro-Windsor party in Britain, who would like nothing better, regarded it as a favorable omen that the Duke last week sent $500 to a Leicestershire agricultural society for a new fair ground and the Duchess $25 to a fund for a new church school in Warfield, Berkshire, from which one of her ancestors sailed for the New World...
...longer does research himself. "I sort of keep an eye on my boys, and help to get the money which enables them to keep going." But he still gets into his old "lab" clothes weekends-to tend the zinnias, phlox and anemones around his home at Chevy Chase. Ground has already been broken for the new buildings at Bethesda, where the Government's newly subsidized cancer research will take place. The donor of that ground was Luke Wilson Sr., 65, philanthropic heir of Chicago's Wilson Bros, (haberdashery manufacturers), part owner (through his wife) of Washington...
...craft has a strong pylon with a vertical mast which holds the top wing firmly in place for ordinary flying, and when released allows it to revolve on a bearing for a gyro landing. By virtue of a starting mechanism in the wing which starts rotation on the ground, the Vertaplane can make a gyro takeoff as well as a gyro landing. It weighs 1,700 lb., has a 125-h.p. motor. Said happy Inventor Herrick after the demonstration: "For ten years we have been searching for the missing link of safety in aviation. We hope that...
...Humber Oil Co. Near the village of Lembecq-lez-Hal the airliner bored into a mass of dark cloud, was seen few minutes later pitching steeply to earth with flame enveloping the left wing. The plane struck so hard that the motors and half the fuselage disappeared into the ground. All on board were killed. KLM officials, but few other aeronautical experts, thought that lightning might have ignited the fuel tanks while the airliner was in the cloud...
...schoolhouses in the land, only 10,000 have 16 mm. projectors and of these less than 700 are equipped for sound. With too few films to encourage new projectors and too few projectors to encourage new films, education by movie has never gotten off the ground...