Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Clive Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, defended the increased naval appropriations (TIME, Mar. 23) in a spirited speech. He went over a lot of old ground and became interesting only when he arrived at the tail end of his speech and found himself at Singapore. He saw no offense to Japan in building the base. He accused the Labor Party of dropping the project as a gesture to get other countries to cooperate in universal disarmament. He quoted an American as saying: "When you cooperate with people, you find they do the operating while...
...Rome, a number of royal princes and princesses boarded the train. Officials of the Hellenic Republic were conspicuous by their absence. Finally, at Florence, after an Orthodox Church service, the body was recommitted to the ground until such time as the Government at Athens permits it to be buried there...
...foot of ground pivoted like...
...wives of two Army officers, who were the last of the foreigners to leave the train, Mrs. Robert Allen and Mrs. Roland Finger. These inaccuracies incline one to doubt the accuracy of the statement that Miss Lucy Aldrich had $50,000 worth of jewelry which she buried in the ground and so miraculously recovered. Would any sensible woman be traveling anywhere with that much jewelry on her person...
...always been believed that a person who falls through the air for any considerable distance loses consciousness before he reaches the ground. This theory, it is true, had never been verified, since persons so falling have always lost consciousness upon impact with the ground or street, never to regain it. Last week, two army aviators-Sergeant Randall L. Bose, Corporal Arthur Bergo-set themselves to disprove the belief. At Mitchel Field, L. I., they ascended to a height of 3,000 feet in a bombing plane, leaped out with closed parachutes. A large crowd had gathered below. This crowd...