Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About 200,000 union miners left their jobs, most of them with money in the bank, some prepared to raise chickens and vegetables, others ready to work in factories. Manufacturers and railroadmen, who are the largest consumers of bituminous coal, refused to be alarmed. Ninety million tons are above ground, in storage, in freight cars-and, then too, the non-union mines in West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee produce 65% of the nation's soft coal needs...
...Arthur Meeks of Belleville, Ontario, was pruning a tree last week. He sawed and sawed until a limb fell to the ground. Pruner Meeks was sitting on that limb. At the hospital, physicians say that he may not live...
...possibility that dug-outs will be constructed this year on the Soldiers Field baseball diamond was denied yesterday by Dennis Enright, ground keeper of Soldiers Field. It was proposed some time ago that dug-outs, to take the place of the former players' benches would be of benefit to both the players and spectators. However, no dug-outs will be constructed this year for several reasons. Primarily the construction of dug-outs requires digging several feet into the ground, and the land of Soldiers Field will not permit this because it is nearly as low as sea level...
Four veterans who won their spurs as last year's infield combination will comprise the inner line of the Crimson defense. Captain Isadore Zarakov '27, a sure fielder and a dangerous man with the stick, is the third base guardian. Sullivan, who fills the shortstop's berth, covers ground well, and has the strongest throwing arm of any man of the inner combination. William Ullman '27, another dependable player, holds down the keystone bag, and J. E. Tobin '27, keeper of the initial sack, is a fielder of parts and a strong but inconsistent batter...
...private dormitory much more fearing than to be feared. Harvard never seemed to agree with Indian students for most of the ones who started, and there were quite a number 250 years ago, either died before they could take their degrees or returned to their native hunting ground before their college course was finished. Whether the ones who died did so violently or not the records do not show but they do say that they had a special building, running from the end of Harvard Hall to Massachusetts Hall in which some twenty of the red men could be accommodated...