Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...examining Paul Revere White, a convict who worked in a turpentine camp in Bradford County, Florida. White testified that because he was unable to do as much work as the Negro convicts he was given five lashes with an eight pound strap, each lash knocking him on the ground and cutting deep gashes in his flesh. Hearings will be continued until the jury has amassed sufficient evidence upon which to base indictments...
...Grew Jr. and Captain R. S. Hubbard Jr., and who has been unable to go out since then put up a strong game at guard for team A. Team A's backfield was weak, but N. S. Howe, Captain of the 1926 team, was the most consistant ground-gainer...
Members of the University will not be able to play tennis on the Jarvis courts for at least two days. The University team may be able to play tomorrow. Frost and not rain has been the cause of the unfitness of the ground, according to John Sullivan, caretaker of the Jarvis, Holmes, and Divinity courts. Each morning for the past two days the courts have been hardened and stiffened by a night frost, only to thaw again in the afternoon. A warm temperature predicted for last night and today may mark the beginning of a thorough drying of the Jarvis...
...Yale Daily News with a succinct and persuasive statement. The object of a college education is culture. "Culture is not the finished product, much less the meretricious trappings of an inferior article serving to deceive the observer. Culture is fertilization. . . . True education must make fertile the intellectual and moral ground so that it can bear fruit in the proper season. To be more concrete, the real education which a college can give is that which enables the alumnus to judge for himself with reasonable expectation of success...
...third spring football practice of the season yesterday, a new system of conditioning exercises was innovated by Coach Campbell. All the backfield candidates were made to run in a circle, jump every third step, roll on the ground, hop, first on one foot and then on the other, walk holding onto their ankles, turn forward and backward somersaults, and finally, run at a quick pace, bent double with arms folded...