Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commonly believed that it is of Irish origin because it is included by Moore among his "Irish Melodies", with the words, "Believe Me, in All Those Eadearing Young Charms" but Comer shows it originated from the airs of a popular English ballad, "My Lodging is on the Cold Ground...
...enter into the spirit of the pastime and laughingly take six or seven baths while she was reading the fashion page of last month's Vanity Fair. It would do no good to rush upon her in full undress: she was old and callous and stood her ground like a man. Neither would it avail to crawl out the window, or ring the fire alarm, or pretend to drown in the tub. But now, by a system of secret signals, the distressed Innocent calls another member of the club, who enters with a shot gun or a new Vanity Fair...
...suggested in well-informed circles that the Bolshevik Government annulled the concession on the ground that the U. S. had not been induced to recognize Russia; but, not being willing to cancel the contract on this ground, a technical reason was found. Whatever the cause of the Russian Government's action, it at least provided an object lesson to others of the difficulty of dealing with an unrecognized government...
...Austin, Tex., Harold M. Osborne, jumping in the University of Texas relay games, pitched himself into the air, unbuckled his body so that it spun across a bar 6 ft. 8 15/16 in. from the ground, thus establishing a new world's record for the high jump. The old record, also...
...system of organization that grew up for the rural, pioneer, agricultural society of a century ago is inadequate to the demands of the urban industrial society of today. Here, as elsewhere, the tendency is to go on tinkering with petty details, instead of studying the matter thoroughly from the ground up. The subject ought to be approached in the same spirit in which Story approached the different, but no less difficult, problem of his day. To make a commercial law for America from the English decisions on the law merchant, the Continental treatises on commercial law, and the applicable doctrines...