Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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English lost ground in 1928 to Economics; Economics remained the most popular field through the depression years until 1932 when English again was the largest. Until 1937 these two alternated in being the field attracting the most students...
...winds up with the desirable proposition that we keep out of war. However, America must base her reasons for keeping out on more solid ground than this manifesto. Enno Hobbing...
Bollay declared that although it is now too late to sign up for the course, anyone connected with the University may sit in on the ground instruction lectures, which meet five times a week at 8 o'clock...
...pleasant, possibly fatal coma. A pilot flying at 15,000 to 18,000 feet for four or five hours may feel well enough to ignore his cumbersome oxygen mask. But when he lands he may collapse with violent headache, dizziness, nausea, muscular weakness, mental confusion. Chronic altitude sickness may ground a flier for over a month. Only pressure cabins or oxygen masks will forestall the disease. And even with these precautions, warns Dr. Armstrong, "it cannot be considered a safe practice to fly over 20,000 feet where the safety of the flight depends upon the inhalation of oxygen...
...have lovingly perfected the technique of making killing realistic. Samples: a soldier with a sword piercing his throat, another transfixed by an arrow, an agonized, trumpeting elephant with a spear sticking in its eye, a soldier caught by a wounded elephant's trunk dashed to pieces against the ground. But there are some surprise shots of tranquil loveliness: a close-up of five banks of oars leisurely sweeping a Roman quinquereme through still water; against a big sunset cloud pile, the beak of Hannibal's galley drifting into Carthage harbor as he returns defeated from Italy...