Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These men, who will work as student aviators, have enrolled in the course in flying instruction which the Navy is offering to New England college graduates and undergraduates. Lieutenant George R. Poud, commanding officer of the station at Squantum, stated yesterday that work in the Ground School will begin on the evening of Tuesday. February 12, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Actual instruction in flight, however, will not be given until spring or summer...
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...undergraduates of the University at the Naval Reserve Air Station at Sqnantum under the direction of Admiral Louis R. de Steigner. Preliminary theoretical instruction in the art of fight throughout the spring, and intensive practice in actual fight for 45 days in the summer will comprises the course. The ground school classes will begin about February 1 and will be held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Tuesdays and Thursdays of each week...
...landing between 4 and 5am. A detachment of 400 attacked Fort Randolph and captured it from its defenders, who numbered 1 than half as many. Another detachment took the Coco Solo aviation field (defended by 70 mechanics) and submarine base, "destroying" submarine supplies and capturing all aeroplanes on the ground...
...Gray, Third Secretary of the U. S. Embassy, escaped death when his house collapsed by jumping from a window to a telephone pole. F. D. Leclere, another member of the Embassy staff, sprained his wrist by jumping from a window of the Imperial Hotel, 20 feet from the ground. Linden Wells of Los Angeles fractured his ankle in running out into the open. Most of the guests of the Imperial Hotel fled into the corridors at the first tremor, others rushed out into the streets with their clothes and dressed there. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and her daughter...