Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robert Broom of the Transvaal Museum discovered in the South African Sterkfontein caves last fall. The ape, of the family Australopithecus transvaalensis, lived in the Pleistocene days, when Pithecanthropus and Sinanthropus were already beating down lesser men. Since South Africa was treeless, Australopithecus must have walked on the ground. Whether it walked human-fashion is not known, since the bones of the lower leg have not been found, but certain it is that it carried itself like an ape, because its head was hafted to its neck like that of a gorilla or chimpanzee. The horrifying feature of Dr. Broom...
...have sinned," she said. She took a pair of scissors, went to the woodshed, stabbed at her right eyeball till she gouged it out. She took a heavy ax, put her left hand on a concrete pipe, chopped at it viciously. At the third blow it fell to the ground. Ola Harwell walked back to the house, got into...
...thunderheads, unfurled a million-dollar umbrella. Theatre attendance had been falling off; reports had come from Manhattan that Marie Antoinette, which cost MGM $2,500,000, was actually being hissed; exhibitors had called some of the studios' most valuable properties "poison at the box office"; in Washington the ground was being leveled for Thurman Arnold's anti-trust suit against the major Hollywood studios. Hollywood's answer to all this was characteristic...
...important rule is that the location selected be in the business section and preferably on the ground floor. Another is that no Centre may consist merely of a gallery; it has to have studios and work shops, too. A third is that the Centre, once opened, shall relate its exhibitions and teaching directly to what everybody knows in the community, not to what everybody ought to know. High-hatting is taboo...
Years ago dairies used to dump their surplus casein, later discovered their dumping grounds had become fertile fields. In 1898, Casein Co. of America started making casein commercially. Manufacturing process is relatively simple: after skim milk, which has a 3% casein content, has soured, the curd (crude casein) is separated from the whey; the curd is then washed, dried and ground into the finished product. Since 1921 U. S. production of casein has risen from 8,000,000 to 40,000,000 Ib. annually. Biggest consumers are paper makers (who use 70% of the yearly output for coating book, magazine...