Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lately voted to throw in its lot with John Lewis. C.I.O. membership is now nearly as large as A. F. of L.'s (3,000,000 as against 3,600,000). Said sarcastic Mr. Lewis last week: "If C.I.O. continues to lose ground at the present rate, I don't know how we'll handle all the applications that are pouring...
...quite reached. On the northwest side of Madrid the Rightists remained entrenched in suburban University City, their "foot in Madrid's door." After five days of what all agreed had been some of the hardest troop fighting of the war, plus incessant air battles and machine-gunning of ground forces by planes, General Miaja said the loss of life in his offensive had been "very small" and that air raids on the day of hottest fighting were "without a single loss for the Loyal aviation...
...white crosses converge toward a hill crowned with a church set against a little pile of distant cumulus clouds. For a modern counterpart of this scene St. Nicholas parishioners can look on the other wall, opposite the Crucifixion. Under a black, apocalyptic sky, a young miner lies on ground covered with coal rubble. Weeping women in violet robes at his head and feet avert their eyes as a group of men with picks descend into a smoky middle background. A headline of the Croatian newspaper on which the dead miner is sprawled reads: "The Immigrant Mother Raises Her Sons...
Near Hugo, Colo., when Farmer Hutchins went to bed one evening last week, three-inch green shoots covered his 50 acres, promising a 20,000-lb. yield of beans. At sundown the next day every single sprout had been devoured down to the ground, below the ground. The land was almost out of sight beneath a dusty- grey, endless horde of grasshoppers, plodding inexorably onward, eating every shred of living vegetation. There were dozens and scores of 'hoppers to the square foot, millions to the acre, trillions to the county. Government scientists and reporters crunched around the countryside...
...number of eggs laid the previous year; 2) the wetness or dryness of the weather. Moderate rain during the spring months keeps down grasshoppers because in moist weather a parasitic fungus flourishes which preys on the larvae. Scientists estimate the number of eggs by digging up the ground, counting the eggs in small sample areas. After they brought in a heavy egg count last spring, followed by continued dry weather, they predicted the worst...