Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Year present, eh wot? The other two are Ned and Johnny. Those horses are just like children to me look! there they are," and he of the ludicrous spotted face gazed tenderly down into the courtyard below, where four magnificent white charges, with dappled flanks, champed and pawed the ground impatiently...
Soon Liechtenstein's 65 square miles of territory were converted into one gigantic bog, tops of houses and church spires, with an occasional oasis of high ground, lifting above the sea of mud. Frantic peasants drove their cattle as best they could toward the high mounds of land; boatmen plied their oars with aching muscles as they ferried women and children from their submerged houses to those still standing above the flood. Many people were forced to spend two days on their house tops...
...Lateral passes are protected. In previous seasons only forward passes were declared dead when uncaught or knocked to the ground. Now the attacking team can perfect a lateral passing attack with same protection. This change is expected to develop a complicated and spectacular system of open passing play. Lateral passes, however, can be intercepted like forward passes, and run back for gains and touchdowns...
Since there is no demand for longer hours at Widener and since the scholastic records of Harvard compare not unfavorably with those of Princeton, the text must be found in other sources than the punching of time clocks. It would hardly be safe ground to presume that Harvard undergraduates read more quickly than those of Princeton likewise would it be foolish to announce arbitrarily that powers of assimilation are variable in given groups of young men. He who requires explanations with his argument must needs seek elsewhere. Unless he seizes upon the enormous reading facilities-including both space for readers...
Since Captain C. R. Wilcox, star ground-gaining back of the Purdue aggregation, appeared yesterday afternoon at the Soldiers Field Locker Building on crutches, there is little likelihood of his being seen in action today...