Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Better leave!" neighbors warned three families living on the Flynn plantation, twelve miles east of Little Rock, Ark. "Think we'll stay-river won't get near us," they answered. Late that night, dwellers on higher ground saw lights, heard screams on the Flynn plantation. Soon the lights went out, the screams were silenced. In the morning there was deep water where three houses had stood...
What is the essential doctrine of Fascismo? It is direct, constructive, continuous action by the People under the guidance of the State. This gospel of action, dynamic, propulsive, was expounded last week by Signor Benito Mussolini in a great document designed as the ground plan on which the new social order must arise. Fascists hailed the proclamation as their Charter of Labor, as the first magna charta guaranteeing to a people not rights but duties...
...that Dean Gauss would enunciate a new prohibition, but Dean Gauss said nothing-until last week, when he unexpectedly proclaimed an interpretation of his anti-motor vehicle edict which the laziest of campus sag-spines had to admit partook of Solomonic cunning. "We have so many machines on the ground," Dean Gauss began blandly, "that we do not bother particularly about those up in the air, as a fleet of pursuit planes would be needed for effective control. . . . Anyone may fly over Princeton-but if he lands here, and runs along the ground, we shall class his plane...
...finish line, are timed by stopwatches in one-fifths and one-tenths of a second. Last week, at Cornell University, Professor A, "V. Hill. British physiologist, demonstrated electrical devices that will record a runner's time to 1/200 second. The method involves burying electric coils in the ground at intervals across the finish line; tying a light, magnetized sheet of metal to the runner's waist. The magnet induces brief electric currents in the buried coils as the runner flashes in. Electricity, literally lightning swift, may quicken many a "dead" (tied) heat, shave many a record...
...ambulance ready to pick up the bodies. They saw Carisi climb over the edge, struggle vainly, hanging head down, to fix the buckled wheel. Pilot Chamberlin. wrapped the children in blankets to save the shock of a crash. Then he slowly swooped down, ten feet from the ground flattened into a pancake stall, 'tail downwards. A wing dragged along the ground, slewed the ship around but not over. Incredibly, Pilot Chamberlin, hero with Pilot Bert Acosta of the world-record endurance flight (TIME, April 25) had eluded disaster. Eloysa Levine laughed, "Mr. Chamberlin wrapped me in blankets. He thought...