Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...helped Ripon celebrate its claim last week. President Hoover, as honorary chairman, sent Secretary of War James William Good to represent him, to make a speech. The Good speech did not fully uphold Ripon's claim to Republican primacy. Said he: "The party . . . came up, literally, out of the ground, everywhere, in response to a country-wide demand from the people. Events, not men, called it into being...
...Mary and her husband Of course, it rained. But Lord Lonsdale famed side-whiskered British sportsman and chief steward of the course, said that the ram made no difference. "The course was hard as iron," said he, "and the result shows just this?some horses can run on hard ground and some...
...airdrome in Wichita, Kan., skeptics once doubted that he had really snared ducks flying at 100 m. p. h. 50 to 100 ft. above the ground. To an airplane he tastened a 50-ft. cord, a 1-ft. string, an old black sock, 18 in. long, 4 in. in diameter. The plane then swooped in an arc 100 ft. above him, the sock streaking out behind it. With a 5½-ft. bait-casting rod and a line with a nine-hook plug, he hooked the sock and jerked it from the string on three out of five tries...
...place of honor. Nor is horse meat particularly unpalatable. A little tough, perhaps, and not very tasty, yet between a relatively succulent morsel of horse and a comparatively gristly portion of cow there is not so marked a difference. As for dogs, they are fond of horse meat, ground up and mixed with cereal. In Rockford, Ill., Chappel Co. has a large factory devoted entirely to horses that are going to the dogs...
...front-wheel drive, previously used in only a few trucks and racing cars.* Sponsors of the Ruxton maintain that the pull of the front-wheel drive is a more efficient application of power than the push of the conventional rear-wheel drive. More apparent to the layman is the ground-hugging streamline effect of the low structure made possible by the absence of the long drive shaft and rear-end differential. It is this low body which has made possible the elimination of the running-board-the passenger steps from the car directly to the ground. The Ruxton also claims...