Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gupper '26 upheld Mencken on the ground that his chief efforts have been to create a new and distinctive American...
...Mather, Associate Professor of Geography when asked by the CRIMSON reporter about his South American trips on which he collected the material for his present work said, "My work deals principally with the physical geography; I am occupied not so much in collecting geological specimens as in seeing the ground and describing the topographical features of the regions covered. So far I have made two trips across the interior of South America, and on these I have obtained much valuable material...
Beside a bend in the Smoky Hill River, near Sharon Springs, Kan., a white cow observed one of last week's sunrises, ruminatively as was her wont. But she never finished that morning's cud. At 7 o'clock the ground yawned beneath her with a rumbling roar and she was swallowed up, with a section of her pasture, into the bowels of the earth. That at least was what people thought had happened...
...farmer's daughter heard the noise, saw a bluish cloud of smoke ascend. An investigating party beheld a hole in the earth 50 feet wide descending conically into blackness. As hours passed, this fissure sucked in the adjacent ground for 300 feet around, gaping out into the dry, sandy riverbed. Out of the bottom darkness, pale greenish waters later welled up and there was the white cow's body floating upon them, 100 feet below ground level. Sulphur fumes arose...
...with his leg or sniffed with his nose. Dick McDevitt did not understand what people meant when they said the dog was dead. Dead! A stupid word; but he repeated it to himself until it seemed to take on a meaning. His father † dug a hole in the ground, and asked Dick McDevitt if there was anything he wanted to say before they put Ruff in it, for it was the last time he would ever see his friend. "He was a good dog," said Dick McDevitt in a clear voice, "but he is a dead...