Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eager to keep his hands off the whole ticklish business. Governor Merriam last year announced he would not consider pardoning Convict Mooney until his efforts to prove his innocence legally had been finally ruled on in Court. Last year, the Supreme Court refused to review the case on the ground that Convict Mooney had not yet "exhausted every resource'' in the lower courts. Last autumn, the California Supreme Court handed down a verdict against Convict Mooney which enabled him to appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court a second time on the grounds that he was denied...
...jams, their new & old love affairs, their prejudices, inhibitions, the tormented jokes they cracked about their difficulties. In the course of his investigations he built up unsparing portraits of their environments -a pick-up world where nobody understood anybody else, where people imagined crimes and perversions in the back-ground of casual acquaintances, where they confided in strangers and insulted their friends, where enough brutal monstrosities turned up to give substance to their fears and suspicions. Readers might feel that Author O'Hara had not answered all the questions about his Glorias and Julians, but they had to admit...
Because Painter Blanche has covered whole epochs in his previous writing, and does not want to go over the same ground in this, he does not follow a strict chronological narrative in Portraits of a Lifetime, but skips through time & space as his memory prompts him. The result is a little disconcerting to readers who do not know his previous volumes. At one moment the artist may be telling some antique anecdote about Renoir which drifts imperceptibly into comment about the political situation in present-day France, of which he strongly disapproves...
Cowles got in on the ground floor when America's first squash courts were built at the Harvard Club of New York, where he had been playing squash tennis, nearly 25 years ago. In 1920 he came to Harvard, destined to coach 17 undefeated teams. His book, "The Art of Squash Racquets," is the standard manual of the game...
Since the weather is so uncertain and the ground outdoors soft, it appears likely that the gridders will be confined to the cage at least until the upperclassmen report Tuesday...