Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...main railroad line, up in the hills. You have to change trains at Greensboro, a second-rate town (considering its advantages) where, dazzling and unexpected above an ill-kempt street lined with shabby buildings, a single white skyscraper towers up, its facade handsome with carving, its superior ground-floor shops the heralds of Greensboro's delayed awakening." The News commented editorially: "While five million dollars are being spent on four buildings, not to mention a flock of lesser projects, the landscape is necessarily cluttered up a bit, and as a lot of the work is being done...
...This county in the Finger Lakes district is the stamping ground of the famed progeny of two sisters (Jukes) and two Dutch backwoodsmen...
...your August 9th issue, in a footnote on the George E. Brennan article, I note that you state that the Finger Lakes district is the stamping ground of the noted Juke family of criminals...
...filled, dingy air. "Half a mile from London, sir," replied the pilot courteously. Upon this information, the goggled person, a passenger recently embarked at Brussels, began a series of unpleasant antics, striking his fist against the side of the plane, cursing in a sodden voice, and stamping on the ground. He had wanted, it appeared, to go to Paris. At the Brussels Aerodrome, four planes had been leaving simultaneously for London, Brussels, Cologne, and Paris. He had simply gotten the wrong one. Becoming calmer, he exhibited a ticket-"Brussels to Paris." Then, actually, he smiled. "I always used to take...
What makes the majority of people prefer the "nice, safe" ground to flying around the heavens in airplanes, is a maxim they used to read in their copybooks: "What goes up must come down." It is not likely that this maxim will ever be disproved, but there are ways and ways of "coming down." Refinements upon the art of gentle descent began at least five centuries ago when a quaint babu hugely diverted the court of Siam by jumping off the roof with two umbrellas hooked in his girdle...