Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addition to Plymouth Rock, the President visited the old burial ground, where three of the original pilgrims now rest. At the tomb of William Bradford, who antedated Mr. Coolidge as Governor of Massachusetts by 298 years, the President paused...
...radioed his first report to the National Geographical Society. Gray jellyfish, he told about; snails with wings; a fish like the bullhead, with ventral suckers for attaching itself to rocks while feeding; rare arctic birds in little-known summer plumage; land plants which eschew stems to snuggle next the ground and escape the wind; sea kelp, whose writhing shapes even Eskimos often mistook for animal life; carpets of wildflowers, luxuriant timothy, gaudy mosaics of lichen, orange and purple, on the black rock cliffs; the maniacal laughter of sky-filling clouds of dovekies (little auks...
...Fordor (four door sedan) will blossom respectively into "deep channel green" and "rich Windsor maroon." Heretofore all Fords have been black. All but these two models will remain so. Other "radical improvements" are: (1) inch larger steering-wheels on all models; (2) seats 4 inches closer to the ground and more ^ reclining; (3) radiators⅝ of an inch higher, and nickeled in closed models; (4) gas tanks under cowl (instead of the drivers seat) or roadster, touring car and coupe...
...which had been so long and so intimately under the observation of Victor Lawson. The item, a very inconspicuous one, spoke of another burial. It related how Eric Nelson and Ted ("Texas") Court, the marauders who died in the raid on the Drake hotel, had been shoveled into the ground at Potter's Field...
Members of a Methodist church recently broke ground for a new edifice. There was a parade headed by a police band, moving pictures shown against a screen hung on the outside of the old church, and within the old building a continuous vaudeville show, including a donkey educated to pick numbers out of a hat, hot-dog and pop stands, while plenty of red lemonade added to the eclat of the occasion. The event took place in New York city, where the new four million dollar Broadway temple, under the leadership of Dr. C. F. Reisner is, according...