Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Second: "Oh a dirty look on white ground. He hadn't shaved, that...
Benito Mussolini intends, it is affirmed, to dissolve the Chamber if the anti-Fascist movement gains further ground...
When Miss Lucy Aldrich, sister-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was captured by the Chinese bandits she managed to hide her jewelry (valued at $50,000) in the ground. When released and returned to Peking, she drew from memory a rough map of the place. A search was organized and the jewels were finally discovered by " Boy No. 1" of the Standard Oil Company. He received "an extremely substantial reward...
Accompanied by the large De Havilland airplanes, the flivver maneuvered beautifully, to the surprised admiration of many experts. But per-haps the most extraordinary feature of the monoplane is its ability to get away from the ground at not more than 15 miles an hour, and to land in any small field after a very short run of perhaps 50 feet...
...School History of the United States" by Professor A. B. Hart '80 was among the books condemned by David Hirshfield, Commissioner of Accounts of New York City, yesterday in the report he made to Mayor Hylan. The objection was made on the ground that the history was anti-American and pro-British propaganda and should therefore be barred from the public schools of New York...