Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enter the Netherlands, workers were observed completing casemates and tank traps opposite the neutral Dutch soil. Why? Near Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) just across the border from the Limburg point which runs down between Germany and Belgium, heavy concentrations of Nazi airplanes were reported, and heavy new concentrations of ground troops, apparently brought over from the Polish front...
...fussbudget travelers who like to know where they are going and when they will get there, the North Atlantic last week was no fit place. In its third week the ground swell of World War II had tilted transatlantic shipping from confusion to chaos. Foreigners off to the wars could still obtain sailing permits from the U. S. State Department (providing they owed no income tax), but U. S. citizens who wanted to get to Europe had to unravel cat's-cradles of red tape. First requirement : a revalidated passport, good for six months at the most. These Secretary...
...total of over 150 students have applied for the course, which includes 72 hours of "ground school" and 35 to 50 hours of flying instruction in the air, and which fits the student for a private pilot's certificate of competency...
Fine Arts 1e has jumped more than a hundred over 1937 when the course was last given. Music 1, a comparatively new course, has the large number of 178 students enrolled. These courses have evidently attracted many from the social sciences which have been losing ground in recent years...
Applicants must be American citizens, aged 18 to 25, in good standing at Harvard, in good physical condition, with excellent eyesight, and no previous solo flying experience. The non-credit course, sponsored jointly by Harvard and the Civil Aeronautics Authority, includes 72 hours of ground course, and 35 to 50 hours...