Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York World's Fair's amusement zone covers 280 acres - more ground than the entire Paris International Exposition of 1937. Yet, although the biggest in the history of Fairs, the amusement zone sticks pretty close to any canny Midway's rule-of-three : freaks, peeks and rides. The freak shows boast no overpowering monsters: there are the pigmies and giants, giraffe-necked women and two-headed cows. But of thrill-makers, the Fair has one wow, and for peepshows, in spite of police threats, it contains more public nudity than any place outside of Bali...
...bargaining rights, big General Motors agreed to dicker with both when & if they can agree on representation by a common shop committee. Sadly aware that intra-union feuding has frittered away its union's active membership, the C. I. O. board planned a reorganization drive to regain lost ground, push Homer Martin clear out of the industry...
Growth hormones have been discovered in plants. The major ones are "Auxin A," "Auxin B" and "Heteroauxin." Academic research on plant-growth hormones, mainly done within the past decade, has plowed its ground so well that commercial hormone preparations are now available to nurserymen to stimulate root growth in cuttings...
...exercises will conclude with the singing of "Fair Harvard." Immediately afterwards the confetti battle begins, the audience in the stands participating along with alumni and Seniors on the ground in tossing streamers and confetti. Then the alumni march to the baseball field for the second Harvard-Yale game at 3:30 o'clock. After the ball game there will be supper and dancing in the Houses until 8 o'clock, and then a concert by the Harvard Glee Club and University Orchestra in the Kirkland House triangle. Dancing will be resumed in the Houses...
...tenure provisions of your report, in their negative aspects, have been put into application with remorseless retroactivity. In at least two clear instances men of undisputed capacity as scholars and as teachers have been given terminating appointments on the sole ground that they have already served the University more than eight years and that the budget does not permit their present advance to permanent rank...