Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even Esperanto can be tinged with politics in the strange propagandist twilight that has settled over Europe's chanceries. There really is ground for the belief that the Germans have been back of the agitation for Esperanto, in a desire to make an indirect attack on French and British influence through the French and English tongues. Also the Soviets recently attempted to compel the Russian Esperantists to use their language to further Bolshevist doctrines...
Zita herself is of Italian blood, being a member of the Ducal House of Tuscany. The Florentine diamond, manuscripts from the Modena Library, and other objects were transported from Tuscany to Vienna in the 18th Century. It is on this ground that the Italian Government claims them...
...Chief of the City School Division of the United States Bureau of Education reached a conclusion opposed to salary reductions upon the somewhat different ground that there was no sufficient decline in the cost of living to justify...
...Mencken agrees, if elected, to deport the whole Roosevelt family. Mr. Nathan dissents on the ground that the act would be unconstitutional." " They agree that Major-General Wood should be provided for, but disagree as to the means. Mr. Mencken favors keeping the General in the Philippines; Mr. Nathan advocates getting him a job as an archbishop in Soviet Russia...
...citizen on the ground is, therefore, in a fair way to being protected, although Connecticut is apparently the only state that specifically prohibits the dropping of advertisements and other matter from...