Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual competition. Toreadors have to eater to the Spanish public; football players don't in America. Here the public goes wild for a brief period, but it is all forgotten before the hockey season is under way. If the players have been able to keep their feet on the ground, no one has been the worse for the wear...
...padding and helmets. Fatal injury to players has been done away with as much as in any other game. In fact, while there are still a good many small injuries, that, from the spectator's standpoint, appear sufficient to send a player to his happy hunting ground, probably no sport has sustained so few serious accidents...
...convention week for the town criers. Manhattan was overrun with them?the men who keep their ears to the ground ,their eyes on public whimsy, their private thoughts to themselves?for town criers may no longer air their personal prejudices; the men who flood the land morning, noon and night with news, entertainment, instruction and the merchants' persuasions to buy, buy, buy, in bundles and bales and stacks and mountains of newspapers, which every year grow more numerous, multi-paged and hefty...
...permanent institution through which Harvard alumni will contribute annually in small amounts to the university's development and support- is a railroader of the same gauge, action, power. His career, except for an engineering course at Harvard, parallels Mr. Willard's closely-a New England parentage, ground-training in the Midwest, the presidency of the Northern Pacific at 42 (1903). In 1913 he accepted the task of rehabilitating the New York, New Haven & Hartford, but had to resign after four years. Recovering, he worked under Mr. Willard in the U. S. Railroad Administration. He is still a director...
...faculty fund to be handled by three trustees. The benefits promised: services of competent counsel, diversification of investments, a greater-than-average income and relief from the onus of handling securities personally. It seemed logical that at last the "poor professor" was to "get in on the ground floor" of financial opportunities that a great university's wealthy patrons and trustees are invariably in touch with...