Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great luxury. The teeth are ground down to one-tenth natural size with prodigious labor by the simple Fiji Tiffanys and Cartiers...
...talking to one of the doctors?Dr. A. G. Fairfax, Negro, of Chicago. Dr. Fairfax skilled to discountenance indignities, replied: "I am standing here on my two feet?and here I stay!" His white colleagues murmured sympathetically; and dumbfounded the elevatorman carried the group to the lobby on the ground floor. Later he explained: "I did not know the colored man was a doctor. My orders from the desk are to allow no colored man to ride in the elevators unless he is with a white man who will say: 'He is with...
...library which had been lost by fire with a new one of his own. The colleges in those days was not the prosperous organization it is now, and such a gift meant as much then as would the gift of a new library today, should Widener burn to the ground...
...married by a "Bookkeeper," is kept by a "Sugar Daddy." She shoots a taxicab driver and misbehaves generally. That is the way Author Francis Edwards Faragoh, Hungarian by birth, sees Greater New York. His Pinwheel sputters, squawks, dies like a skyrocket that never left the ground...
...Freshman minor sport teams chalked up victories on alien fields last Saturday while a third went down to defeat on its home ground...