Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Back went this news to the roving newspapermen. They bustled up and down the islands a few hours and flashed home, for Mr. Wilbur's contemplation, a truly horrible dilemma. They told him that, providentially, the half-filled tank was on higher ground than the empties. All Mr. Wilbur need do was to authorize the drainage of oil from the half-filled to the empties. This would cover the floor of the empties with oil and would prevent most of the damage. It was a very simple operation needing only some simple pipes and the force of gravity. In fact...
...Vapor gases, of which the only one used in the War was mustard gas (dichlorethyl sulphide). This gas is 3. blistering penetrant, the effects of which last for a considerable length of time, owing to its slow evaporation. Ground saturated with this liquid cannot be occupied for at least a week. In high concentrations, such as were used, it is certain death, to breathe it without a mask; but although there were 150,000 casualties in the British Army from mustard gas, less than 1 in 40 died and about 1 in 200 became permanently unfit...
...sings the changes of the cycle in the life of a woman-one stony, first, as the reluctant earth, fearing the fire that moves, the force that brings lilacs out of a dead stalk whose root, fed by death, feeds death again in the carrion ground. Her career is conventional. She loves, marries and, dying, bears her child...
...teams at the Hanover institution, once more proved a prominent factor in the series of Dartmouth triumphs over the Crimson. With two out, and with two on base, Bjorkman let two strikes sail by. Then picking a curve ball which broke fairly over the plate, he pushed a fast ground ball down the third base line outside Zarakov. The ball took a bad hop past Todd in the outfield, and before the Crimson outfielder could retrieve the ball. Harris had scored from first with the winning tally for Coach Tesreau's outfit, effectually breaking up the game...
Dartmouth was put in a position to score in the ninth when Owl, Indian second sacker, reached first base when Ullman booted a ground ball. Hudgins advanced Owl with a perfect bunt, which only excellent fielding by Spalding prevented from becoming a safety. Elliot lifted a long fly to Rogers in center field for the second out, and the stage was set for Bjorkman's sensational drive...