Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese General Chamber of Commerce lent its complaining voice to that of the rickshaw experts. It petitioned the Government to cancel the contract on the ground that it would ruin thousands of rickshaw coolies. "Besides, there is foreign money behind the trolley car company...
...champions, while assuaging our wounded pride will hardly convince the obstinate Britain without actual proofs. Of course it will be difficult to single out the average pedestrian, the average taxi, the average subway train from each of the contesting cities; it will be difficult to select a tournament ground where like conditions of traffic exist. But where there is a will, there is a way. The difficulties must somehow be overcome for to continue in England's dust would be intolerable...
...complaints about ticket allotments, there has been one point of agreement: the only full solution is to create more tickets. Pipe-dreams for enlarging the stadium have been plentiful but not practical. Now that a definite scheme has been proposed and is actually under consideration, there is ground for optimism. The question may be raised whether such an expenditure at this time is desirable; the answer, that the addition will eventually pay for itself in extra receipts, seems satisfactory...
Young Harvard, as reported in the CRIMSON, does not seem to share Miss Pankhurst's feeling that religion is the hope of the world. The CRIMSON opposes the building of a chapel as a war memorial on the ground that the college religious service no longer plays any part in the lives of a vast majority of students (which is true enough), nor is likely to become any more important in the future. It thinks a neglected chapel would be an ignominious tribute. If thinks a building which will be "a constant, active reminder of the ideal which it represents...
...airplane operated by a French company on the London-Paris route caught fire in the air and crashed in flames to the ground. Among the six victims were Mr. Laurence Schwab of Oelrichs & Co., New York, Yale graduate and well known business man, and Miss Juanita Bates, young society woman of Ithaca...