Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this new building plan the University is, in reality, gaining 10 new courts. The new baseball cage will cover the ground occupied by the 5 courts nearest the Soldiers Field Locker Building...
...held in Randolph Breakfast Room, at which all candidates for the University team will be enrolled. The following Tuesday informal practice will begin at the Freshman Athletic Building. This will be voluntary, but Coach Cowles has urged all men to use this practice for the improvement of their ground strokes and service. The freshman candidates will be called out the following week when interdormitery basketball is over...
...life went out, I was conscious suddenly of a presence, not a vision, and there sounded in my mind the words of Jesus: 'Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing, and not one of them can fall to the ground without the Father's notice? Are ye not of more value than many sparrows...
...small square temple, built by the Sumerian king Aannipadda, of Ur, about 4500 B. C., is the oldest building in the world still standing above ground, according to a report from Dr. C. Leonard Woolley, director of the joint expedition of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania Museum, which is excavating in the region of Ur in lower Babylonia (TiME, April 28, July 9, Dec. 31). The temple, located at Tell el Obeid, four miles from Ur, was first unearthed some months ago, but its excavation has now been completed, carrying back the known history of Sumeria...
...tried for a second time to beat Lecointe. He failed-reaching the modest elevation of 34,983 feet. His altimeter recorded 41,000 feet but the altimeter is not an absolute instrument to show height. It measures how much lighter the air is at heights than it is at ground level. On a cold day the air is heavier at ground level, hence the error. And it certainly was cold the day of the flight-the thermometer failed at 70° below zero Fahrenheit, at some 30,000 feet. Macready went still higher and into still colder air; he needed...