Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...These figures cannot be explained away on the ground that Americans were not brave, for we are a courageous people. The reason is to be found in the fact that in both wars, as in all our wars, America has never been prepared...
...successor must be elected, not appointed. The suggested candidates include Governor Elaine of Wisconsin, Attorney General Eckern of that state (rivals), Mrs. LaFollette. With their leader dead and their ranks split with dissention, the LaFollettians must heal their quarrels, or Lenroot and the regular Republicans will regain the ground which LaFollette took...
...Church of Rome losing ground in China while Protestants assumed control of the higher education of the country and thus of the new leadership of the country? At once the Holy See forewent its policy of building only hospitals and asylums, decreed that a Catholic University should be founded at Peking, designated St. Vincent's Archabbey (Benedictine) of Beatty, Pennsylvania, to execute the task, called on the Church's faithful throughout the world and particularly in the U. S. to support it. To encourage the work and lend example. Pope Pius has personally contributed 100,000 lire...
Almost at once, a solid cushion of fog robbed them of all observation of drift and ground speed. A powerful gale sprang from the northeast, forced them west, cost them heavily in priceless gasoline. Two hours later, they outran the fog, came out above a solid white of the polar ice, ridged, hummocked, corrugated like a sheet of twisted steel...
Thus does Daniel Guggenheim turn from the bowels of the earth to the heights of the heavens to do for the air what his family has done for the ground...