Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father's mistress, and a maiden aunt in love with the father. Spring, a week late, hit Paris with an intoxicating sequence of superb days. Out in the country, wheat, barley and oats looked good; the 1,500,000 vineyard owners had their spring shoots in the ground; fishermen were beginning to pull in their annual 5,000 tons of fish from France's inland waters. In Brittany it is the time for spring pardons-the old, unique, Breton folk custom that permits the peasant to approach the Deity through various saints, and which means a season...
...gallons, but after passing Philadelphia he began to worry about his gas. When he sighted his destination, Floyd Bennett Field, he decided he was just about dry. So, instead of circling to come in upwind, he streaked in downwind for a "hot" landing. His wife, watching from the ground, put her hand to her mouth. But Pancho got down neatly and smoothly at about 115 m.p.h...
...most people the Veterans of Foreign Wars or the American Legion have a vital meaning. If some students disagree, they should be polite enough to keep it in the family. Again, there are certain emotions and fetiches--memory for the dead, patriotism--which the ordinary American holds sacred. This ground should be inviolate, and no one should lightly trespass...
...hair. Each of the three instruments is fitted with a needle which touches a wire, sending out a radio signal by means of a micro-transmitting set. The significance of the signals depends on the time between them. The measurement of this time interval by the operators on the ground provides all the needed information...
...none by mistake. After the War their use soon spread to all the world's air forces. Even with camouflage they will probably be used in the next great war, both for their identification factor and because the sight of friendly wings overhead is a morale builder for ground troops. As the flags of nations have disappeared from modern battlefields, they thus reappear, in new forms (see next two pages), in the battles...