Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...During the past three years there had been 27 days of ground fog; the number of buses unable to complete their scheduled journeys, 10,202; mileage lost...
...soot-laden white mist of great weight. Owing to the warmth of the ground and the consequent lighter pressure the fog descends from its chilly couch in the skies-that is, when there is no wind to blow it away-and covers the earth until the heat gradually dissipates it. Were it not for the soot, the mist would probably be dissipated by the surface heat as it descended...
...Archbishop of Canterbury supported the bill, because it provided for the dissolution of marriage on the sole ground of adultery...
...means of a refrigerating machine, so that the occupants of the chamber may be made to experience these effects. Into this chamber three well known French military aviators, armed with oxygen tanks and clothed in fur costumes, were recently introduced and "ascended" some 30,000 feet without leaving the ground. At 3,500 meters the men were seen to don their oxygen masks, at 5,000 meters they stamped their feet and showed other signs of the extreme cold they were experiencing-at this altitude also telephone conversation became impossible, sound being scarcely transmissible in the rarefied air. The "flight...
Albert B. Fall, former secretary of the interior: Said I, in London, of Mr. Harding: 'Although the President likes to drink as much as I do, he is quite prepared to stand or fall by the enforcement of prohibition simply on the ground that it is the law of the country and must be enforced at all costs...