Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Winter wheat" is planted in the late fall and allowed to lie in the ground through winter. Spring wheat is first planted in the spring...
THUNDERSTORM-G. B. Stern-Knopf ($2.50). Mistress of many moods, the author of Debatable Ground and The Matriarch (Mrs. Geoffrey Holdsworth of England) well merits the distinction of her pseudonymous initials (G. B. S.) Few writers of equal taste can so deftly thread the fine needle of discernment with the wiry fibres of reality. Thunderstorm begins as an idyll-an intelligent young English couple basking beneath the comic benevolence of their Italian servants, emotional 'Vanna and heroic Ettore. Basking with them are semi-permanent guests, a durable male friend, a spirited girl cousin. To the baskers blows a breeze...
Orville Wright, unimpressed by the chauvinistic claims made for this patriarchal buzzard brought forward some weeks ago, certain criticisms of the label (TIME, May 11). Its statement was true, he declared, except for the fact that the Langley plane had never been capable of rising from the ground for longer than five seconds...
...house is to be built in an ordinary fuselage 45 ft. long, supported on the ground by an immense undercarriage fitted with 44 by 10 in. tires, supported in the air by wings spanning 60 ft. There will be cabin accommodations (including berths) for six passengers, pilot, mechanic, cook. Features are electric lighting, heating from the engine exhausts, and electric stove and refrigerator system in the cook's galley, typewriter, writing desk...
...College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, Va.), one of the earliest repositories of higher learning in the U. S.,* they laid a cornerstone. The ground had waited 149 years for a memorial to the founders of Phi Beta Kappa, honorary hierarchy of scholarship. From all points came distinguished collegians. Dr. Charles F. Thwing, President Emeritus of Western Reserve University, and President of the United Chapters of P. B. K., was in the chair. Sir John Asser, Governor of Bermuda, became an honorary member...