Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Retreating Chinese, pursuing the "scorched earth" policy, dynamited and fired everything of value to the Japanese. Factories were set ablaze, the luxurious Japanese Naval Club, the Japanese Consulate and Consul General's residence were blasted to the ground. Scores of Chinese, trapped in the dynamited areas, were killed. Reservoirs were demolished but Father Jacquinot reportedly persuaded the Chinese to spare the Hankow pumping station...
...through economic appeasement, through an extension of trade which will raise the general standard of living, the steps toward war can still be retracted. When he stated that the totalitarian states are in reality exhausting themselves while creating an illusion of strength and security, he was never on surer ground. When he described the drift to autarchy, armament, and war as a "road strewn with the wreckage of civilized man's most precious possessions", he expressed succinctly what has been said many times before, but which well deserves repetition. And when he stated that "the world is at a cross...
Kirkland was slow in getting its running attack started, with Winthrop guards Sam Binnian and Dick Eustis blotting out several Deacon line plays. In the last quarter the Deacons made ground when Don McSweeney traveled the ends for good gains...
When both his eyes were completely covered by cataracts, the sickness that comes with the attacks passed. At the sound of other horses going out for their rides Elmer Gantry whinnied nervously, stamped, pawed the ground with impatience. Miss Getzendaner decided to take him out. At first he stumbled hesitantly and nervously over the ground, but he seemed to like it. In the beginning she would only let him walk, after a few weeks allowed him a tentative trot, finally a gallop...
...ears and her voice replaced his useless eyes, the horse no longer picked his feet high off the ground at every step in fear that a ditch, a tree, a root or a hollow might trip him. Gradually he became more & more excited when he was in groups of other horses, used to lunge and try to race. Once, when Miss Getzendaner gave the first signal at a ditch, he jumped it instead. She decided then to try to train him to jump...