Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hunt-club members alike) is held-under the auspices of the National Foxhunters' Association-for the purpose of holding field trials, a hound show and horse show. At Winchester, Ky. last week swank Eastern socialites, sombreroed Texas ranchers, rich Oklahoma Indians and Kentucky hillbillies met on common ground at the 45th annual foxhunters' jamboree. Competitions were open to any foxhunter who had paid his $5 membership fee to the national association...
...daybreak each morning, 100 to 200 of the country's best-bred foxhounds, with identification numbers painted on their sides, lined up at the casting ground, their handlers behind them. At a signal from the purple-coated Master of Hounds, they were unleashed, followed by nine judges on horseback and, five minutes later, some 200 riders on mounts ranging from expensive hunters to plow-galled plugs...
...caused by excessive secretion of pepsin, hydrochloric acid and other powerful digestive juices. Dr. Matthew Hill Metz and Robert W. Lackey, Ph.D., of Baylor University, Dallas, Texas, reported that they had healed 55 out of 60 peptic ulcers by giving the patients two-thirds of a grain of powder, ground" from dried pituitary glands of cattle, to sniff four times a day. Injections of pituitary extract directly into the blood stream were tried at first, but they caused disagreeable reactions. Inhalation resulted in slower absorption, no unfavorable reactions...
...short of totalitarianism of either Left or Right, preserve in economics a "Liberal Regime" as he called it on the radio. No. 1 Trade Union Boss Leon Jouhaux promptly indicated a feeling that such measures probably are today the sole means of making France strong enough to hold her ground in Europe. Cried Boss Jouhaux: "We must take steps at least as bold as those which have been taken by President Roosevelt. . . . Organized labor in France is not of course willing to pay all the costs and make all the sacrifices." This was not asked of Labor, for M. Reynaud...
...expect to see the building started during his lifetime, but his investments were so sound that a year ago the fund went over $500,000 and ground for the building was broken...