Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Belle Sherwin, President of the League of Women Voters, replied : "The League objects to the admission of the Woman's Party on a ground which everyone concerned recognizes as a fact-that the Woman's Party and the League are opposed to each other in policy and in political action. This opposition has been demonstrated year after year at hearings on bills before the national Congress and before different State Legislatures...
Burns, the ground covering center fielder for the University, dropped 46 points but is still leading the batting order with an average of .365 which is five points better than Captain Todd, who bettered its mark during the week with two good days at the plate against Holy Cross and Princeton Zarakov, the flashy third baseman, climbed 12 points in the ranking and retains his grasp on the third rung of the hitting ladder...
Evidently the Crown Prince of Sweden, haling from the least of imperialists, has discovered that the true nationalism is internationalism. It is a fact becoming more and more evident to the world at large as cooperative projects gain ground. But it is not surprising that such as Sweden, which has played the role of interested spectator in Europe's sword-rattlings, should be the most thoroughly pervaded with the new nation. One remembers that the dove has always found it easiest to alight in Geneva the Hague, or Stockholm than in Paris, London, or Berlin...
...pointed out that the only constitutional ground which Madams Corrigan and Curtis had for maintaining that the property owners' agreement was invalid, was that it was contrary to the Fifth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments...
...they are closely watched, and often the authorities are kind enough to warn us and them, in some cases, because their acquaintances 'may cause an unhappy marriage.' Seems to me, they interpret the acquaintances of men and women in terms of intermarriage and they don't give any ground for intellectual comradeship...