Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monitor's crew claimed bounty for the destruction of the Merrimac. A congressional committee investigated the facts and rejected the claim on the ground "that the Merrimac, so far from being seriously injured, was enabled after the engagement to protect the approaches to Norfolk and Richmond until after the evacuation of Norfolk". (H. R. Reports, 1725, 48th Congress, 1st Session...
...Bruce and his brother James approached from the side. The 20 ushers were, followed by four bridesmaids?all school friends of Ailsa Mellon's at Farmington, Conn.?and Miss Craigie McKay, the maid of honor. The female attendants wore orchid chiffon swinging a full 18 inches from the ground in front and wide brimmed hats. The costumes were extremely simple, that of the maid of honor being distinguished by a slightly darker hue. Their bouquets were of larkspur, butterfly roses and purple orchids...
...placed the crucial matter of debts and debt liquidation into the hands of expert financiers, hoping that they can evolve a solution The Premier's supporters on the left, who have less to lose from a financial debacle than the more capitalistic right have deserted him on the ground that he has abandoned the country into the hands of the "interests". Only twenty of Briand's personal friends in the left, remain with...
...CRIMSON, believing in the above yet decidedly backing the crew rallyy scheduled for this afternoon, may appear to be shifting its ground. Such is not the case, for it sees in today's exhibition not an artificial stimulus to excite the undergraduates to support a sport or testir athletics into a mad frenzy that they may accomplish the phenomenal, but rather it sees in the rally a voicing of support and approval both necessary and encouraging to a Harvard crew in a difficult situation, a crew which besides having to face this situation must in three weeks' time develop into...
...effected little. And in a time when the youth of the nation is shouldering so many of the difficulties which their very vigor and intrepidly enable them to carry it is interesting to realize that some of the student youth of the country dare to tread upon such hallowed ground...