Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Crops. Cotton and corn are the principal crops in the flood district. In normal times the cotton would now be waist-high?this year, even in regions where planting has been possible, it is only a few inches out of the ground. Corn should be from five to six feet high?even where it has been planted it is only a foot or less out of the ground. Only an abnormally long summer can save even a fraction of these two main crops. Farmers have been experimenting with soy beans, sweet potatoes, cabbages, crops as strange to them "as Broadway...
...wrong. It is a creative thing. That is why your generation is so fine, so much cleaner, healthier, more promising than my generation. For when a generation discovers that the old codes cannot be used and sets up for themselves high standards of their own they have much firmer ground on which to proceed...
...convinced that the early pusher type of plane with propeller in the rear was wrong. His next plane, which he hoped would conquer the English channel, was designed with the propeller in front, No one seemed anxious to purchase a motor for him, so he stayed on the ground-again disappointed-while Louis Blériot crossed the English Channel...
...Death and are ordered to strip. Vanity (Leatrice Joy, Charles Ray). A characteristic of De Mille productions is that all display must be super-grand. Is it a ball? The room spreads as vast as Grand Central Terminal. Is the heroine a social lioness? Her train covers as much ground as the hall rug. The plot substance, by compensation, is minute. In this instance, the heroine visits a onetime admirer aboard his ship on the eve of her wedding to the hero. The admirer wants too much for his flattery, so she flees...
Comrades Rosenholz and Vojkov, thus interrupted, resumed their walk without replying to Boris Kovenko. He, snubbed, drew a revolver and fired at M. Vojkov. The Soviet Minister whipped out his own revolver, but sagged to the ground before he could wound Boris Kovenko, who continued methodically to empty all six chambers of his revolver into the crumpled body of M. Vojkov. When two policemen sprinted up, the assassin carelessly surrendered his revolver, saying only: "I killed Vojkov. ... I acted from idealistic motives...