Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Murder. Some of the Park Central's guests thought they heard a shot. A taxi-driver thought he heard another cab backfire. Anyway, Rothstein was found inside a locked service entrance on the ground floor of the Park Central, staggering, with a bullet in his groin. He declined to say where or by whom he had been shot. He soon died. Outside the hotel, a discharged gun was found, dented by a fall of perhaps three stories...
...announcing to the world that he proposed to unite Venezuela with Colombia and Ecuador in a league "against encroachment by Yankees or Europeans." Eight years later the catalog of his unparalleled audacities included: 1) repudiating Venezuelan bonded debts to European investors; 2) seizing British and Dutch ships on the ground that "personal enemies of myself are being nurtured in British and French Guiana;" and 3) grossly insulting the French Government by refusing to allow their Minister to Venezuela to land, "because I suspect that the fellow has yellow fever!"-an impish charge unsubstantiated by any fact...
...possesses diamond fields, these have been exploited by absentee-owned syndicates; but it is fair and just to say that Great Britain has lamentably failed to turn her famed colonizing talents to the development of British Guiana. Equally deplorable is the Dutch failure to make anything but a dumping ground for wretched immigrants from Dutch East Indies out of Dutch Guiana. Most notorious of all are the uses to which French Guiana has been put. In the penal settlements along the coast and on the famed lies du Salut, ("Devil's Island") between eight and nine thousand...
...Ground will be broken next week for the new million dollar gymnasium, although the Athletic Association at present has only enough funds to build the first three floors of the proposed four story structure, according to an announcement given out this morning by W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics. Eager to avail themselves of the money now on hand, and prompted by the pressing need for better facilities for indoor sports, the authorities have decided to take this step toward replacing the antiquated Hemenway Gymnasium...
...raised and owned, until last week, the best steer in the U. S. Clarence called the steer Dick. When Dick was calved (July 27, 1927), Clarence paid his father, Fred Goecke of State Centre, Marshall County, Iowa, $55 for the gangling Hereford bull. Thereafter, every day Clarence fed Dick ground corn, cooked barley, oil meal, bran, molasses feed, clover hay. Clarence groomed Dick himself, made Dick's hair curly with a special comb, helped make him a steer...