Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...main problem this fall was to find space on which the teams might play. One day last month there were 133 men playing on Soldiers Field, every available ground being occupied. This situation will probably prevail most of the time next year...
...There is absolutely no ground for intelligent condemnation of the huddle system of giving signals," said J. L. Knox '98, coach of the University football seconds in an interview with a CRIMSON representative yesterday. "Those who criticise it base their arguments either on the manner in which poorly coached teams execute the huddle, or on facts for which the huddle is not responsible. The huddle system is a perfectly natural development from the continuous battle between the offense and the defense which has characterized football since its beginning...
...conclusion of 'John Brown's Body' there occurred a lull-like the uncomfortable pause in a conversation at a dinner-party where the guests are not quite sure of their ground. The eyes of H. R. H. gleamed impishly: he raised the gassoon to his lips again, expanded his cheeks and commenced to play another tune. ... It was one which had been sung to the Prince half a dozen times a day during the whole tour. It was 'God Bless the Prince of Wales...
...ground that in the Marconis' marriage contract was a clause providing that they should separate if ever either desired it-a clause which would void any marriage in the eyes of Rome, where mar riage is a sacrament, indissoluble...
...handled 320,019 tons of goods for each mile of transportation furnished. In Africa where blackamoor porters still carry freight on their backs, each is capable of but 152 ton-miles a year. I explained the three basic means of transportation-horse-drawn (having lost ground long since); the self-contained unit (steam engine); the central power plant with ropes of power stretching out (electric engines). I predicted the long continuance of the second of these, the steam locomotive, as the dominant means of accomplishing the main purpose of the railroad-the transportation of heavy articles over long distances. Electricity...