Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the close of the football season come harrowing newspaper accounts of the injuries, fatal or incapacitating, that have occurred this fall. As usual there is ample ground for the assertion that poor coaching and improper condition are responsible for most of the fatal injuries, for only three of the deaths occurred on recognized college elevens. But the difficulty of determining the number of men engaged in the game during a given number of months vitiates part of the meaning which might be gleaned from the recorded statistics...
...Sullivan's column in the World and in the New Yorker. He takes a news item, a musical instrument (the zither, for example), an actress, an animal or the income tax and starts telling about it. Suddenly the reader becomes aware that Mr. Sullivan has left the ground and is loping around in a most ridiculous ether...
...Orville Wright, at Kitty Hawk,* N. C., made the first airplane flight in history. His brother Wilbur who had helped him invent the motor and design the plane, watched him, nervous, confident and inquisitive, from the ground. An undertaker also stood by. Wilbur Wright died in 1912; but Orville Wright has lived...
Flying Developments. That first flight was over only 120 feet of ground and lasted only 12 seconds. During the 25 years since then various planes have crossed the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans. They have risen to 38,418 ft., stayed in the air 65 hrs. 25 min., traveled 4,466 miles without alighting, sped 319 m. p. h. They have crossed North America from the Pacific to the Atlantic in 18 hr. 58 min., from the Atlantic to the Pacific...
...religious, and therefore slightly emasculated, lies much of the innate indifference of the under graduate toward it. The conference will show that the organization is one with the flabby efforts of misguided philanthropy, which the new student has generally met. When this misconception is out of the way, the ground will be clear for more fertile plans of active work...