Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then he saw the startled look on the legislators' faces. "I'm getting on ticklish ground," he laughed. "I'm for everybody. I want to help the farmers, the teachers...
...South African teeth, Dr. Gregory also found connections with Peking Man, the orangutan, and Sivapithecus, a manlike fossil ape discovered many years ago in India. The geological character of the ground, however, indicated that Dr. Broom's creatures lived relatively late in the Glacial Age, by which time definitely human types such as Peking Man, Piltdown Man and Heidelberg Man had already appeared. Plesianthropus and Paranthropus thus appeared as laggard survivors of a much earlier evolutionary spurt-"conservative cousins of man," says Dr. Gregory, "and progressive cousins of the modern apes...
...sock," Managing Editor Borden specializes in poise, acquired at Dartmouth (Class of 1926), Harvard (M.A.), University of Chicago, where he taught Shakespeare until he joined the Times in 1929. He was a flying fanatic until one day in 1932, when he tried to do an Immelmann turn from the ground, cracked up with two broken ankles and his face halfway through the dashboard. During his long hospital convalescence, he kept the broken instrument board at the foot of his bed, as a memento mori...
Handsome, 42-year-old Assen Jordanoff has never flown around the world, but in the last few years he has collected lots of money. In his early U. S. years he was barnstormer, instructor (he gave a ground lesson to the late Thomas Alva Edison), movie consultant and test pilot. By 1929 he was able to set down his flying notions in good plain English in newspapers and magazines. In 1932 he turned out a book, Flying, and How To Do It, that sold mightily for a dollar. On the strength of this, Funk & Wagnalls engaged him to write...
...proof steel doors (ajar), into a room full of copper sheets (pennies in the raw), they tiptoed. One of them knocked a wrench clattering from a chair, but no guards came running. They took some copper clippings ($1.50 worth), tiptoed back to their window, threw the copper to the ground, departed as they had come...