Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arrest of four Krupp directors on the charge of stirring the workers to resist the troops. General Degoutte threatened to expel all railway officials and workers unless they return to work. Hotels and stores in Bochum, forcibly closed by the French a month ago, declined to reopen on the ground that they would still refuse to serve or sell to the French...
...sole ground of objection to most of the activities carried on by the League is the fact that they are carried on by the League...
...minute stage of the Provincetown Theatre are assembled people dressed up as Leonardo da Vinci, Lorenzo dei Medici, Fra Filippo Lippi, Sandro Botticelli and all manner of other notables of renaissance Florence. It is all very ingenious and very amusing. But the joke is run into the ground. All these grotesque masqueraders begin to take themselves seriously. You think you were wrong about the fancy dress. Casting sidelong glances about the garden of Lorenzo, you nervously seek the uniformed attendant. At any moment, you feel, some ardent damsel may rush on shouting: "I'm an egg! Watch me scramble...
...English throughout Europe than any inherent superiority of the language. For a century, the English-speaking nations have furnished the world with tourists. And since both British and Americans persistently refuse to know any language but their own, the sensible Continentals have learned to meet them on their own ground. Germany has long taught English in her public schools; the educated foreigner, once devoted to French, has acquired English as well. In North America, Australia, South Africa and the British Isles, except Ireland, of course, English is the ruling tongue. With its increasing use in Europe, Asia and South America...
...football practice, which originally was scheduled to begin last Monday, has again been postponed, this time until Wednesday. At first the delay was caused by the softness of the field, while at the middle of last week the extreme cold prevented the beginning of the workout. At present the ground is so hard that the coaches feel that it would be unwise to do any practicing. If the squad is able to get out Wednesday the work will continue only up to the vacation, but if another delay is caused, some time will probably be used after the close...