Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outskirts of a parade ground were thousands of Zulu tribesmen. In the centre were 5,000 warriors, naked except for loincloths of leopard skin. On their left arms they carried shields, in their right hands their famous assagais (spears). On their heads were enormous spreading headdresses of black feathers. They began a kind of dance, worked themselves up through weird contortions to a "terrific frenzy" that was accompanied by blood-curdling yells and "dirgelike singing of the women." The visit of the Prince had the effect of healing a long-standing breach between the Usutu (Royalists) and the Mandhlakazi...
...spring of the senior year. The city in which I had been teacing night school ran temporarily out of funds and I could not collect my salary. I had purchased a supply of paper for a printing job which failed me, and a late spring kept snow on the ground so that carfares ate up my earnings as fast as I received them. One morning, as I went to classes, I spent my last cent on carfare. I wore two rubbers for the left foot, and the world looked gloomy indeed. To make matters worse, the mail man passed...
...Crawley walked Zarakov, loading the bases. Todd was due for a hit, and he lined one of the hardest hit balls of the afternoon straight at Di Giovanni. The diminutive second baseman stopped it with one hand and caught it with the other just before it dropped to the ground, retiring the side by doubling up Zarakov at first...
...stage audio-frequency amplifier to improve the sensitiveness of the telephone. This permits the use of much weaker currents in the Bridge itself, thereby minimizing disturbing effects due to heating and electrode reactions and increasing the range of usefulness of the apparatus. Another improvement is in the proper grounding of the set to eliminate errors due to electro-static capacity to ground...
...Teapot Dome case, the evidence of fraud was far less impressive-in fact, very fragmentary because so many witnesses were out of the country. But, if the Cheyenne judge follows the same reasoning as the Los Angeles judge, he will void the Teapot Dome lease-on the ground that President Harding had no authority to give Secretary Fall control of the Naval oil reserves...