Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that occasion, gold teeth flashing and freckles getting lost in dimples, the Governors had jocularly pushed and pulled each other across the interstate line. Last week's ceremony on the S. S. De Witt Clinton, anchored at midstream, was to signalize the breaking of ground for the world's longest suspension bridge* -between Fort Washington Park, N. Y., and Fort Lee, N. J. There was no jocular pushing, no pulling; but Democratic Governor Smith pertly warned Republican Senator Walter Evans Edge of Governor Moore's party to take care lest the new bridge make...
Eyewitnesses related that the machine began falling from a great height and that at a height of about 70 feet a wing fell off and the great machine hurtled, dead weight, to the ground, half burying itself. The corpses were mangled almost beyond recognition. All, save Seiler, were instantly killed, the mechanic merely showing bare signs of life and passing away without regaining consciousness. The accident was ascribed to an airpocket dashing the ma-chine to the ground, a hardly feasible premise; another guess was that the pilot had died suddenly of heart disease. A rumor of political assassination...
...falls in a heap on the ground. Leslie follows him, firing and then standing over him, fires two or three more shots in rapid succession into his prostrate body...
...upperclassman is doomed to comparative insignificance it is because he welcomes it, being glad to sink into his surroundings and show that he belongs there. He is in good company, and once the usual questions have been exchanged about the vacation just over, the ground is cleared. The year begins quietly. It comes in like a lamb...
...wires under the Pacific were alive with news that the around-the-world flight was at an end. Mr. Schlee's reasons for stopping were not entirely domestic. The next jump was 2,500 miles over the Pacific to the tiny Midway Islands, lonely coral reefs where landing ground for an airplane was problematical. Cables said that fuel for the next hop, to Honolulu (1,400 miles over the sea), had not arrived at Midway Islands. Neither Schlee nor Brock is a navigator. Aviation experts all over the world regarded the jump as certain suicide. Scores of protest-cables...