Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Visitors Board objected to the union on the ground that Andover was an orthodox institution, while the Harvard Divinity School inclined toward Unitarianism. They claim they have the power to prevent the union on this ground...
...Yale team received its first test in New York Saturday night against Georgetown and Boston College. Georgetown broke the indoor record, covering the distance in 7.46 while Yale finished a poor third. This poor showing should not furnish the University any ground for optimism, since last year's two-mile relay was clocked in 8.11. Had the record breaking Georgetown team run the University at the B. A. A. last year it would have won by over...
...transparency of the shadows, all are in the Rubens tradition. Reynolds has two other canvases in this collection-one of Lady Spencer and her son Viscount Althorp, playing with a black and white cocker-spaniel; one of the Marchioness Camden, seated with a naively histrionic air, upon the ground...
...unpitying hunters" who slew them but the natives living outside the Park. Each hunter is allowed one elk. Mr. Albright said that men, women and chldren were firing into the herd and, after it was all over, they would pick out their elk, often leaving large numbers on the ground which no one dared to claim. They are so ignorant about it and it was such plain slaughter that a case is known where the people had half skinned a donkey before they discovered...
...stopped the German advance on Calais in. 1914; in Bruges, Belgium, after a long illness. Geeraert kept the sluices of Nieuport. He knew that German armies were plunging across Belgium to the sea. He opened the locks. Into the flat country flowed the water; within 48 hours the ground was spongy, soon it was a marsh in which German soldiers struggled with plunging horses, foundering field-pieces. Gradually the water rose, until it became a lake two miles wide, barring off the Germans from Nieuport to Dixmude. The Belgian army, which had been retreating in disorder, had time to remarshall...