Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boycotting the Congress on the ground that it was Red were Fascist Germany and Italy, the Catholic Church, the Boy Scouts of America. And in Washington, where the Dies committee was investigating "unAmerican activities," onetime Red J. B. Matthews testified that Communists were exploiting innocent bigwigs as "fronts" for the Congress. Thereupon Vassar College's President Henry Noble MacCracken, chair man of the U. S. sponsoring committee, snorted: "I think I have sufficient intelligence to know when I am being exploited...
...affect infantry practice (and increase the hazards of the U. S. and all armies). On paper in the War Department, and partially worked out in the field, is a new infantry division, halved from the present strength of 22,000 into a more compact, harder-hitting unit combining infantry, ground reconnaissance in one command...
...Antonians began to follow Dumpy like children after the Pied Piper. Throughout the neighborhood, treasure hunters began pocking the ground like so many 'forty-niners. But Dumpy shook all pursuers, kept her source secret. By week's end she had brought in $18. Mrs. Stiles took some of the bills to a bank, where she was assured they were neither marked nor on wanted lists. This week all San Antonio was interested or involved in the hunt for Dumpy's roll...
...hours earlier, it had been fed by three cords of oak, 500 lb. of charcoal. When flames flickered over the glowing coals and a pyrometer recorded the heat at 1,220° F., light-footed Kuda Bux took three long hoppity steps through one pit, hopped out on solid ground. Later he tried it again, again achieved only half of what Fictioneer McNamee reported...
...strangely subdued and pious piece of writing. Of Gogarty the "wit, poet, mocker, enthusiast" and original of bawdy Buck Mulligan in Joyce's Ulysses, the poet is about all that remains. As hagiographer of Ireland's patron saint, Gogarty writes as one on holy ground, and it has taken most of the Elizabethan starch...