Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese hurricane has leveled to the ground the great national library of Peiping, a vital part of the educational equipment of the North China universities. But Chinese scholars, who have been blown to Kumming in the South, have established a new national library. It is a library without books. To fill it, an appeal has been broadcast to the world and to Harvard College. The spirit of unity which binds fellow seekers after knowledge should compel a willing response...
...Railway Co. for operation of its cars. The transaction would be without rent, which the company is nable to pay. Face to face with this apparently insoluble situation, a group of leading Cincinnatians resolved last week that something must be done about the city's hole-in-the-ground. Last week they met at the Sinton Hotel, organized as theMetropolitan Transportation and Subway Committee, stoutly resolved to settle the question once...
...Perry advocated a strong stand against those nations who propose to "root out" freedom of thought. "We are confronted with powers in the world which deny our basic creed of liberty," he stated. "They have elected to be our enemies and they are our enemies. We have no common ground on which we can unite. Between them and us there is a state...
...quake had torn up a vast, 450-mile-long segment of the narrow nation. Some 20 towns and villages throughout Chile's richest agricultural and mining regions had been leveled. At Concepión, Chile's third largest city, 70% of the buildings were on the ground. Chillán, hardest hit, looked from the air like a mammoth anthill overturned. Its church spires and jagged masonry protruded through the debris. Its surviving residents scrabbled in the ruins for the dead and injured. In the countryside, wide fissures rent the fields, irrigation canals were broken, coal mines caved...
...Ground Hog (Fri. 12:30 p. m. NBC-Blue) has his annual coming-out party reviewed and interpreted by Howard Zahniser, U. S. Bureau of Biological Survey...