Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Advocate, and the Dramatic Club which it houses, dislodged by the impending destruction of their home, are moving to Ridgely Annex, a few steps from their old habitation. The oldest college publication will occupy quarters on the ground floor, with the Dramatic Club directly overhead...
...Lieutenant Curtin later told the coroner, "and obtained a speed of about 70 miles an hour. At this point, one of the wheels (the right-hand one) of the 'dolly' collapsed. ..." To spectators it seemed that the "dolly" twice bumped heavily, failed to leave the ground. Captain Fonck said afterwards: "I intended to stop the plane but I was afraid it would tear into the crowd of automobiles. . . ." The crippled monster reached a gully at the runway's end, turned a cartwheel, right wing down, and vanished from sight...
Brawn is the product made from chopped or ground and cooked edible parts of swine, chiefly from the head, feet, and/or legs, with or without the chopped or ground tongue...
...pulled out a long white cigar holder, clipped a fat Havana, and settled back behind a peaceful smoke wreath. As a matter of courtesy and alphabetical precedence the chairmanship of the Council was offered to the Representative of Germany (Allemagne). Beaming, Dr. Stresemann declined the honor on the ground that he does not speak French, the language in which the Council is ordinarily conducted. Thereupon Foreign Minister Benes of Czechoslovakia, the retiring chairman, was called upon to preside and the Council took up an innocuous matter-acceptance of a bronze bust of Woodrow Wilson proffered by one Robert J. Caldwell...
...building in Manhattan for the entertainment and care of children up to the age of 16. Here he cooperates with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, by housing the waifs. He financed two Central Park playgrounds, and gave New York State a 1,500-acre park ground on Long Island. And only a few days before he was seen "bounding," he had returned from a European study trip with plans for sanitary, low-rent, "model" tenements, such as the Rockefellers and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. have planned for New York poor...