Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill having been killed by the committee to which it was referred, Mr. Barbour last week moved to bring the bill to a vote on the floor of the House on the ground of "high Constitutional privilege...
Despatches from Mexico City stated last week that the Attorney General of Mexico is preparing to file a claim for $10,000,000 damages against the U.S. Government with the General Claims Commission now sitting at Washington, on the ground that the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico from 1909 to 1913, Mr. Henry Lane Wilson, instigated assassination of President Madero of Mexico...
...poor variations, fruitless hybrids, unfixed types and failures - about 150 "creations", of which the most celebrated are the Shasta daisy, thornless cactus (cattle-fodder), mammoth blackberry, mammoth asparagus, everbearing mammoth artichoke and rhubarb, and the Burbank plum. Perhaps his quaintest anomaly was a plant which grew potatoes below ground, tomatoes above. This and similar freaks he did not submit for commercial growth. They soon revert to type...
Soon the new $10,000,000 National Press Club will rise eleven stories high above that cornerstone, with a frontage of one entire block. It will contain a beautiful theatre, numerous ground-floor shops, and opulent quarters for the 200 newspaper correspondents who reside in Washington...
...there shall be a recess from April 19 to April 25 inclusive. This statement as included in sundry calendars of University affairs appears uncommonly bald and non-committal; but like the succinct phrases of the Parieal Regulations and communications from the dean's office, it covers an amount of ground in exact inverse proportion to the number of words involved...