Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grand Army of the Republic is dwindling in numbers. But when the last march is made and the last comrade is sleeping in the old camp ground, the Grand Army will be more than a memory, for it will become the tradition it has moulded; and by great traditions only do nations achieve that most difficult greatness, grandeur of spirit...
...Gump's situation is like that of a Mr. George Babbitt, a "realtor," who appeared last year with threats of an action aginst Sinclair Lewis, on the ground that the author had subjected him to " contumely and ridicule...
...country the benefits of protection in addition to vast revenue although the rates were extremely low. The Budget he declared was "putting business into government" and perhaps saving the country as much as a million dollars a day. The present immigration law he heartily praised on the ground that at last the country was securing a higher degree of selection in the immigration and was only getting such a number of immigrants as it could easily digest...
...accomplishment of this character and magnitude is worthy of the greatest effort and concentration on the part of those who meet in international amateur sport. They can achieve results which bring the people of various nations together on the firm ground of mutual understanding, appreciation and trust which goes far to eliminate jealousy, mistrust, and danger of war. To successfully achieve such a splendid and desirable objective raises International Tennis to lofty standards far more important than the game itself...
...catches that deprived the Purple of apparently sure runs. Buck was the individual star for the visitors, cutting short the University's one opportunity to tie the score in the last of the seventh by scooping up a hard-hit liner by Gordon just before the ball touched the ground...