Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extract the important features of the matter. Perhaps it is his glasses, or his ingratiating air, or his professed fondness for aesthetics, which gives him the faculty of getting statements on vital issues where others have failed lamentably. With a minimum of apparent effort, he covers as much ground as any of his fellow football recorders...
Action. The District of Columbia Grand Jury (23 members) foregathered. Mr. Sinclair's friend, Mr. Day, who looks "like a well-groomed football tackle," was asked to explain his connection with the Burns men. He refused to answer, on the paradoxical but wholly legal ground that in explaining he might incriminate himself. He was arrested and placed under a $25,000 bail...
...about her work but seldom subtle in its execution. Daring arrays of color, learned on the Corn wall coast, are typical. Influenced as are almost all artists by modern tendencies, her feet remain resolutely on the ground. She was the first foreign woman chosen to serve on the Carnegie International Jury (1922). She loves working out-of-doors. She is 50. Through all her work runs a hard streak of sanity. She seems what many artists would hesitate to seem - completely wholesome. The dancing, the grace, the figure of Pavlowa are among her chief idola tries. She has amazing versatility...
...have an edge over its Blue rival. The Crimson eleven has been tied once by Worcester and has had one narrow victory over the Dartmouth 1931 players, but has won by substantial scores from Andover, Exeter, and the Harvard Seconds, and in all its games has shown great ground gaining power. The Elis, on the other hand, have lost a hard fought game to St. John's Prep and found a much tougher opponent in Andover than the Crimson team...
THIS WILL be made up for BY EXTRA length of TROUSERS and extremely WIDE BELL bottoms REACHING to the ground AND thus covering up the NUDE pedal extremities...