Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Imagine a gigantic yellow bird, with wingspread of 67 feet, weighing some 6,000 pounds, carrying an additional load of 11,000 pounds. Imagine that bird losing necessary flying speed a few feet above the ground, trying to land in a marsh at 70 miles per hour. In such a bird, last week, were Lieut. Commander Noel Davis and Lieut. Stanton Hall Wooster, crack flyers of the U. S. Navy. They were making their last test flight in the trimotored American Legion, preparatory to attempting a non-stop jump from the U. S. to Paris. Loaded with enough gasoline...
...CRIMSON has a fighting team with its back to the wall and both feet squarely on the ground," were the electrifying words uttered by Coach R.H. Field '26, of the Cambridge Fourth Estate, at the mammoth mass meeting which rocked the rafters of the CRIMSON sanctum last night. The teeming crowd that had gathered to give its last full measure of support to the nine men who seek to stave off Princetonian victory today, reached a high pitch of vociferous enthusiasm, as these words of determined confidence rang out through the jammed room. Every inch of available floor space...
...numerous to be absorbed into private families. Sam Batchelder has shown us that for two hundred years there was a college commons and likewise a state of war between the steward for the time being and the students. In the good old days when the commons was on the ground floor of Massachusetts, and the pig stys were under the windows, if the students did not like the dinner, they threw it at the steward. Nevertheless, they hung together. In 1876 the board at Memorial Hall was about $3.90 a week, quite as good and of greater variety than...
...deepest mines in the world are in Brazil, South Africa, South India, and Yorkshire, England. The deepest, a gold mine named "Village Deep", and situated in South Africa, in the Penne District, is 7032 feet below the level of the ground. This and many others will be visited by Professor Graton during his year of sojourn. He will visit every mine in the world that is over one mile deep...
...basement will be a grill room and the ground floor space will be rented to stores. The second and third floors will be used for classrooms with the main entrance leading to them opening onto Mt. Auburn Street...