Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...however, read TIME while flying down, and found it just as enjoyable in the air, as on the ground...
Next day 500,000 persons watched as the coffin was drawn upon a gun carriage to the grave. At the cemetery President Cosgrave was so overcome by emotion and the excessive heat that he collapsed upon the ground. Strong arms raised him up. The service was majestically completed...
...staircase cost $150,000. Today it could hardly be duplicated for twice that sum. But because modern homes want no white marble staircases, because the labor of removing this one intact would cost thousands of dollars, the wrecking company which will raze Judge Gary's home to the ground to make way for a large co-operative apartment house, has decided to pound the marble staircase to pieces and dump the blocks into Long Island swamps. Two Tudor ceilings, a green lacquer and crystal tea room, marble and hardwood floors, will be similarly served. Three years went into...
Meanwhile the rich standards of the Grenadier Guards dipped and swept the ground in salute. Soon the Household Cavalry moved off at a smart trot. Through a lane between applauding hands passed two sovereigns who have little in common except that they both collect stamps...
...explained: "Under the Trent method the coal is finely ground, wet with water and then violently agitated while fuel oil is run in. The coal particles gather into globules the size of French peas, while the ash is suspended in the water and run off. The coal becomes a putty-like amalgam which is then shaped and baked in the form of small briquettes. The fuel oil is mostly recovered...