Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...airplane will fly forward or backward. . . . If the power fails, its wings act as a parachute and enable it to descend in safety to the ground. . . . I have labored seven years, with only the capital which my wife and I could save. . . . She helped by working as a schoolteacher. . . . Now I think that M. Painlevé will help me with my great invention...
Chang Avenged. Last week the mills of Chinese poetic justice ground a traitor and his wife exceeding small. The traitor was General Kuo Sung-lien, once the most trusted henchman of the great Manchurian Super-Tuchun Chang Tso-lin. Less than a month ago (TIME, Dec. 7) he mutinously turned against Chang and forced him to flee to Mukden, his capital, there to make a last stand...
...highest standing in the ground school courses will be eligible for the actual flying instruction at Squantum...
Last year 25 men were "checked out" and given 30 hours apiece of "solo" in Navy planes. The enrollment for ground school two years ago was only 25, but jumped to over 100 last year. This winter about 200 applications are expected. The growth of the success and pleasure of flying is a big drawing card and the popularity of the course is gaining by caps and bounds...
...Mulhouse, Alsace-Lorraine, one De Mouche, farmer, put on his hunting cap, took his long gun in hand, and went out to visit his rabbit snares. Sure enough, in the first snare cowered a furry creature, pressing its soft white belly against the ground, upturning stricken, opalescent eyes. Farmer De Mouche chuckled. He laid his long shotgun upon the ground and bent to secure his game. But suddenly there was a scuffle behind him; another rabbit leaped out of the bush, sprang upon the shotgun's trigger. "BANG!" Farmer De Mouche received both barrels in his back. Bloody, mangled...