Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more to help continue the New Deal by staying in harness where I am than by going into this contest in Chicago." Two days later Honest Harold Ickes visited Chicago, expressed his regrets to his would-be drafters ("I know you wouldn't want to kill me"), broke ground with a silver drill for the Chicago PWA-financed subway, ran out to Winnetka to inaugurate a grade-crossing project...
Elected to fill the two remaining vacancies* in the American Academy of Arts and Letters (membership limited to 50) were Novelist-Playwright Thornton Niven Wilder (The Bridge of San Luis Key, The Woman of Andros, Our Town) and Novelist Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (The Romantic Comedians, Barren Ground, Vein of Iron...
...year, was generally considered out of date. Today the Bureau is getting ahead. Air-mass analysis (study of weather phenomena in the upper air) has been taken up with a will. At six stations, small automatic radios attached to sounding balloons send upper-air recordings to ground receivers. At twelve stations, airplanes make daily recording nights. At 79 stations, pilot balloons furnish upper-air wind velocities. The Bureau has greatly expanded its special aids to airlines, has put 33 of its men in airport weather offices. It has also extended and improved its warning services for hurricanes, fruit frosts, forest...
...first, small in number, stand on firm religious ground. The second pointed to the "armed camp" cause of the Great War, and now the Munich Pact is being pointed out to them. But the third class is the one mind which can most easily be administered to by a dose of rationalization. This group reads that a single new poison gas bomb can wipe out hundreds of thousands of people and whole cities. A kind of popular propaganda has led this group to believe that the Satan vs. God war in Milton's "Paradise Lost" will be considered just...
Before his trip to Alaska he had observed that many rats fed on coarsely-ground raw rice and corn developed tooth decay; but over 200 rats which had been fed soft, cooked cereals had perfect teeth. He set out to find foods in the human dietary which would correspond to the coarse corn and rice...