Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Poker-faced Goose Goslin stepped to the plate, swung high, swung low, like a man who would hit at anything. Pittsburgh outfielders spread out. Canny Goslin bunted. Traynor hit a sacrifice fly. J. Harris, the lines deeper than ever in his sulky, sagging face, smashed a single along the ground to left field and brought in the run that won the game. Had it not been for a catch in the next inning that run might not have counted for so much. Gaunt Sam Rice caught a Pittsburgh fly that would surely have been a home run. Pressed against...
Florida is a sunny state; her ground is rich, her seas warm, the hearts of her sons blithe. But the milkmen of Florida do not leave bottles of champagne on the stoop with their morning deliveries; cigarstore men do not use ten-dollar bills for coupons; melons are not filled with wine; cream does not run down the hills; checkbooks do not grow on trees in Florida. Last week in Manhattan a dozen prominent Floridians gathered to protest against the reckless and fraudulent exploitation which is hurting their state. Governor John W. Martin of Florida was in the chair. Coleman...
...further than its general aspects as expounded in the standard courses will always be with us. And the tutor can be of very great service to such men if he tries to approach them not from the angle of their particular field but on the common ground of general culture. I fail to see why tutorial instruction should be confined within the limits of the field of concentration; after all, the tutor is a teacher of the student as a student and not as a possible specialist. So, if the tutor cannot convert the average student into a specialist...
Donaldson, who prepared at Andover, has been in the scrub backfield for two years. Besides being a consistent ground-gainer, he has this fall done must of the punting for the Second team...
...next play, Crawford, scrub quarter, shot a high pass intended for Strong, who was, however, well covered by a University back. Neither Strong nor the back secured the toss, but Hayne, scrub center, recovered the ball before it touched the ground and with a clear field ahead, covered the remaining distance to the goal-line. Braden kicked the goal...