Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were given places on the state payroll. In 1923 a saloon keeper confessed having given a cash bribe to one of the three jurors. They were indicted. Two other men, one a labor leader, the other a detective, were subpoenaed to give evidence. They declined to talk on the ground that it might incriminate them. The State granted them immunity. They still refused to talk. They were sentenced to six months in jail for contempt of court. They jumped bail, one was recaptured, the other gave himself up. They went to prison...
...next Saturday. It will be more than a game between a large and a small college. For the Tufts team, coached by the All-Proficient Eddie Casey, will, in general, use the same "system" which the University uses. Coach Fisher's men will find themselves attempting to gain ground against a team employing their own defensive tactics, and, vice versa, will have to defend themselves against an attack on the same kind. That is true, in general...
With the gradual change of the Harvard Glee Club from a purely social collegiate singing organization to one of the best known men's choruses in the country, an impression has gained ground that the club is more semiprofessional than amateur in its composition.. Anything more contrary to the facts would be difficult to imagine. It is absolutely and entirely amateur in its make-up, and neither Dr. Davison nor the individual members are recompensed in any manner...
...domestic difficulty for them, moved on again?this time to the Wallensteins, whom she found in the throes of another kind of trouble. Old Mrs. Wallenstein, kosher of the kosher, hated her wasteful, Episcopalian daughter-in-law and was cordially hated back, and the life of Wallenstein, fils, was ground to pieces between the two women. Bertha did her best for that family, too, but tragedy overtook them?and she moved once more. Front Street again?saving a gutter-child from horror?scrubwoman's tasks ? discovery that the Bixbys, with her son, had moved to New York?the fantastic...
...Levy Mayer, widow of the celebrated Chicago attorney who died a year ago, presented $500,000 to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) for the erection of a new Law School building. It will be named Levy Mayer Hall, and ground for it will be broken early next Spring. The Dean of the Northwestern University School of Law is Colonel John H. Wigmore. He is the author of a Treatise on Evidence-the most celebrated treatise of its kind ever written. During the War, he was General Enoch H. Crowder's right- hand man in the formulation of the principles governing...