Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mosul is the centre of important oil fields and oil is the leitmotif in the Allied concerto. Officially, however, Britain claims the right of protecting Mosul by virtue of a League of Nations mandate; Turkey claims it on ethnographical ground; France has a purely financial interest dating back to the Ottoman régime...
...gone seven years without a victory over Dartmouth in baseball, and the Hanoverians have of late cultivated a disagreeable habit of defeating the Crimson in football and hockey as well. This spring Harvard victories over Princeton and the Tigers' decisive verdict over the Green have given Crimson rooters some ground for the belief that the Dartmouth away will be broken. Caldwell, the Nassau twirler whom Harvard so maltreated, pitched an almost perfect game against the Green, retiring the first 26 opponents in order and then yielding two hits before getting the last...
...Stadium gridiron will again take on the war-torn and watery appearance of the Harvard-Yale football game last fall when Ground-keeper Enright and his squad of men lay out today the course for the 1500-metre steeplechase which will be a feature of the Olympic tryouts in the Stadium on Saturday...
...indignation caused by this insult, is impossible to overcome. If there is any ground for this affront, we should repent it and overcome the indignation, but when there is not the slightest cause for the offense given us, it is quite impossible to overcome our indignation even if we wished...
...with a single, but he never got to second. Gordon tripled to right center with two away in the sixth, but a brilliant play by Walsh on Todd's fine bid for a hit staved off the threatened run. Gordon's triple would ordinarily have been a homer, but ground rules held the batter on third...