Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Negroes was quoted as having said: "Sho' would have had a hard time didn't Mr. Hoover come to fetch us to de high ground .... Sho' would make a noble president." And a white man was said to have remarked: "We think Hoover is the most useful American of his day. Why, he'd make a fine President...
Then came the snowy-bearded Patriarch, his long robes sweeping the ground, his voice quavering, and very earnest. King Michael, with the frank innocence of childhood, burst out laughing at this funny...
...Woodward had his fields plowed by a share charged with 103,000 volts of electricity. Inventor Hamilton L. Coe of Pittsburgh had told Mr. Woodward that the current would electrocute weeds, grubs, soil bacteria. Crops, he said, would spring from the volt-purged ground in record time and abundance...
Walk along the ground with a breeze at your back, approach a fence, bend your knees, spring lightly into the air when you feel the tug of the balloon. You will sail over the fence so easily and land so gently that you will be surprised. Barns and trees can be surmounted with more vigorous leaps, usually requiring a light second push-up with the tip of the toe on the barn's roof or on the tree's outlying branches...
...thought, the very thought, of a woman on board, Mate Mortimer ground his teeth. A woman was not merely unlucky but against all sea tradition. If Captain Lawry did not know that then he ought to read Jack London and learn something...