Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During his campaign he spoke in shirt sleeves and suspenders. When he got into action, with one rip, he tore off his collar and tie and threw them on the ground. "Don't get nervous,' he would shout, "I will remove nothing else whatsoever...
...Riachuelo were flooded to an unusual height. The river front districts of Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, were flooded with 3 to 4 feet of water, forcing hundreds of people to abandon their homes. Firemen and police in boats helped to remove families from the flooded area to higher ground. Palermo Park, a quarter of a mile inland, was entirely submerged. Many suburban car lines were held...
...Christianism, is one of the handbooks of the Communist Party, and because of the opinions expressed therein the House of Bishops at the Episcopal Convention in Portland, Oregon, last September was asked by the Diocese of Arkansas to depose him. This request was refused by the House on the ground that Bishop Brown was "mentally irresponsible." Then a committee of five bishops was appointed to ask Bishop Brown to tender his resignation voluntarily. He refused to meet them. Last week he sent a letter to the House of Bishops stating the conditions on which he would resign, the nonacceptance...
...government experts discovered the disease among ground squirrels and jackrabbits in California, to which it is particularly fatal. Surgeon Edward Francis, who was in charge of the investigation, contracted tularaemia, as did several other workers. No effective treatment has yet been found...
...zone of maximum intensity was not reached until the next morning. There was found nothing standing for a distance of about 100 li (40 miles). Well built Tibetan houses were leveled to the ground and their timbers reduced to gigantic heaps of matchwood. Great rents extended along the plain for miles. Mounds and hill tops were smashed and powdered and sections of hills thrown...