Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heels of the Federal postmasters refusal to send packages of food (on the ridiculously flimsy ground that they were not accepting "any irregular packages" during the steel strike), came the ukase from Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago, leader of one of the most ruthlessly efficient city machines since Boss Tweed held sway in Gotham, that Republic Steel must henceforth stop housing workers in the temporary quarters set up in the Chicago plants. This is because the Company is "violating city health and building ordinances", a statement so palpably absurd, when the temporary living conditions established inside the plants...
...possible. Airplanes of the strikers performed fancy aerobatics trying to drive off the company planes. Soon feeling on both sides was bitter. The strikers swore that no food should be taken into the plants until all company men were withdrawn. They in turn were charged with firing from the ground on planes bearing food...
Only four of the more than 50 pavilions were ready-the German, Russian, Belgian, Italian-and there was much caustic criticism because the President had had to make his tour of the Exposition by boat to avoid "holes in the ground and the mess of construction." Jean Frenchman, however, had little cause to grumble at the delay. Because the turnstiles could not be erected in time, everybody was let in free...
...changed and changing world. It may be that [workers in the theatre] have not been sufficiently wide awake; they have not seized or created opportunities to resort to strategy and salesmanship; to develop new audiences; to stimulate dramatic output and to reshape the physical conditions in existing theatre. Much ground may have been lost but one proven fact remains and that fact is thoroughly encouraging: THE DEMAND FOR DRAMA THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY TODAY EXCEEDS THE AVAILABLE SUPPLY...
...Grant should have played in a major Davis Cup match long before 1937. Be cause his legs and arms are so short that he has to spend most of his time chasing the ball, Grant frequently falls down, has become dextrous at returning shots while sitting on the ground. This has caused experts to underestimate the soundness of his game, which has enabled him to beat most of the world's best players at one time or another. Grant has been struggling to get on the U. S. Davis Cup team for the past five years...