Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...length of which is yet undetermined, after a child recovers from a communicable disease, he is no more prone to changes in thyroid size than a child who has not had a communicable disease. In so far as elementary school children are concerned, there appears to be no ground for assuming that the ordinary communicable diseases are responsible for simple goiter. The underlying causes of this malady must be sought for in other directions...
Anon a cobra, no pretty worm of Nilus,* creeps out of nowhere at the feet of that most famed snake charmer of Egypt. It raises its head and a length of body clear of the ground, quite resembling a rat terrier expectantly sitting up for a titbit. As the fakir puffs his cheeks in hissing whistle, the cobra puffs its hood and lazily sways to the sibilancies...
...plant which must be erected to supply Harvard with heat and light. Already the Weeks Bridge carries the pipes for the service of the Business School. The same ducts might be employed for the passage of conduits from a main plant located in Alliston. Other plots of University-owned ground available for the structure are undesirable for this purpose because of their proximity to residential or working sections of the University. It would appear that, apart from the House on Boylston street, a replacement of the power plant built on land that is now waste is a step of immediate...
Married. Richard Henry Catling, 58, Manhattan banker, son of famed Gatling-gunman Richard Jordan Catling; to Ann M. Jones, of Baltimore, in Hagerstown, Md. Banker Catling recently divorced Winifred Waters Catling on the ground of desertion. She had gone to Jerusalem, Palestine, to practice Christian Science...
Divorced. Russell Sturgis Codman Jr., Boston real estate broker, famed international oarsman, graduate of Groton and Harvard; by Mrs. Elinor Medill Patterson Codman of Chicago, onetime Nun in The Miracle, daughter of famed Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson; on the ground of desertion...