Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...successfully completing four months of preliminary ground school training in the Naval Aviation course given by the Navy at M.I.T. six Harvard men have qualified for a summer course at the Naval Aviation Station at Squantum, according to information received by the CRIMSON yesterday from Lieutenant Noel Davis, U.S.N.R.F...
Growled "the Tiger": "You see, I had to build a wall to keep the sea from washing my garden away. A storm robbed me of 20 feet of ground last Winter, and while I must keep the salt water out with the wall, I have had to build an irrigation system for fresh water...
Bacterium tularense was first discovered and named by Dr. George W. McCoy of the U. S. Public Health Service in 1912, after he had isolated it from ground squirrels in Tulare County, Calif. In 1920, Dr. Edward Francis of the Public Health Service discovered that jack rabbits in the states around Great Salt Lake were infected with this disease, and that the human disease known as deer-fly fever was transmitted to man by the bite of a blood-sucking fly, which had been infected previously by biting the diseased jack rabbit...
Dorothy Smith, also of Chicago, bedecked in betwitching bloomers, pattered the ground with graceful feet 60 whole yards in 7.7 seconds, bettering her previous mark by point three seconds. She also ran 70 yards in 8.8 seconds and thus tied a world's record...
...Booth cost a run in the first rounds while a second trickled across the plate on a muffed throw by backstop Duchin. Two more bad errors and another hit gave Princeton two more markers in the second. Undeterred by his team mates lapses, however, Booth remained on the ground, and in the next inning have cut, and while the three were doing the Alphonse-Gaston act, the ball dropped safely. The scorers had no recourse but to give the batter a two-bagger. With these two exceptions, Spalding was invulnerable...