Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cloud banks north of Hankow began to dart fast pursuit planes unlike those guarding the big Japanese bombers. They dived, attacked the invaders. Soon a spectacular dog fight involving not less than no planes, with the Chinese numerically superior, had developed. Big bombers were seen crashing to the ground, some lighter craft were observed tailspinning into the neighboring Yangtze and Han Rivers. Most of the crashing planes seemed to be Japanese...
...around a table, get three steins filled with colored water which resembles beer.* They sip their drinks, act increasingly tipsy, stagger around the ring, finally gulp down the water. While a trainer sings Show Me the Way To go Home, one by one the elephants sink to the ground, pretend to pass...
...Roosevelt's word for it in one case, they repudiated him in another. He was largely responsible for getting the industry to switch its annual show from January to November four years ago; last week the N. A. D. A. recommended returning to the former arrangement on the ground that the present basis has accentuated the glut in used cars by counteracting the normal upsurge in spring sales...
...expedition aims to make maps of this region, which is described as one of the few which still is unknown. Most of the work can be done by aerial photographs, but it is necessary to survey triangulation points from the ground and take panorama photographs with a special 120 degree opening...
...guidebook, adventure story, anthropological study, social & political commentary, covering a 2,000-mile trip through the jungles of Venezuela and Brazil, Journey to Manaos tells next to nothing about terrestrial magnetism. Author Hanson dutifully did the job he went to do, but he records more magnetic attractions above ground than underneath...