Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week twelve war planes from China (said by the Japanese to be Soviet planes) finally flew across the 120-mile-wide Formosa Strait, escorted by pursuit planes, and rained bombs on Japanese-owned Formosa. They flew so high that accurate bombing was impossible. From the ground the attacking craft could be seen with the naked eye only as minute specks. Eight were killed, 29 wounded. Property damage was small...
...Bihar, after a little further haggling with their British governor, were also expected to withdraw their resignations. Thus His Majesty's Government, whose game is quietly to keep pressing mercurial Indians into the mold of Sir Samuel Hoare's Constitution, appeared to have gained rather than lost ground...
Artist Marin's total disbelief in copying nature, on the ground that anyone would rather have a real ear of corn than a painted one, led him ten years ago to a kind of shorthand in which a triangle represented a sail, a jigging line the sea. In his recent work, extremes of this kind have given place to more effective economies: strokes of color and ragged whites which sometimes fail but more often succeed in bringing to life the "fighting" forces of wind, weight, water and light which he feels in landscape. Marin works over each picture with...
With four oblique views besides the straight down one, the camera takes exposures in the form of a Maltese cross. The wing parts are to be set up with centers directly on a plotted position, and after orientation has been made from ground stations, roads, rivers, railroad tracks, etc., can be plotted directly with great accuracy...
With this, the elevation of any pictured point can be ascertained from the necessary ground controls. Bagley expects that it will be particularly applicable to explorational and economic surveys...