Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shining, the air was like early summer last week on the campus of Princeton University. The duckboards which protect the feet of undergraduates and teachers from the mud and slosh of New Jersey winters were still in place along the paths, but earth smells arose from the drying ground, excited birds skittered in the shrubbery, squirrels chattered in the trees. Students went to classes without neckties, and in the afternoons an elderly man with soft, inquisitive eyes and a flowing halo of white hair ambled in & out of Fine Hall, pausing to admire the changing season. He had always felt...
...their treatment of personality, contemporary artists usually fall into the extremes of well-meaning portraiture, ill-meaning caricature or deep-meaning fantasy. For a highly unusual glimpse of the middle ground, the ground plowed up by psychoanalysts and cultivated more subtly by writers from Flaubert to Thomas Mann, Manhattanites last week repaired to the Pierre Matisse Gallery to see 15 paintings by a 30-year-old Parisian known as Balthus...
Police charged that Lowell, while piloting his Gee Bee Spoliator, deliberately flow under Weeks Bridge and then forced strollers along the river to throw themselves flat on the ground...
Thus the student is given an opportunity not only to make up uncovered ground, but a fresh approach to his courses through the eyes of young men not permanently connected with Harvard. The Directors of the Summer School stress particularly getting young men representative of Universities all over the country as instructors. In this way the heavy emphasis on minute scholarship which the student faces during the academic year is relieved, and an idea of the trends of thought in other sections of the country obtained...
...racquetmen have been working out daily in Boston at the Tennis and Badminton Club. Sulloway's ground strokes seem much improved over last year. Lowman has been working on improving control of his powerful service...