Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite President Wilson's testimony that he had no knowledge of the secret treaties prior to the peace conference, Professor Seymour concludes "that Mr. Balfour and Colonel House discussed the secret treaties, and that in the conference with President Wilson which followed 'exactly the same ground was covered.' The question of the Far East was not raised and there is nothing to show that either Colonel House or the President knew anything of the understanding between the Allies and Japan regarding Shantung." The Colonel looked forward to the peace conference "as a good opportunity which may be lost because...
...Blue there were enough potential receivers scattered about the field to reveal the foundations of a sound and workable pass offense. But a lack of finish, a tendency on the part of the receiver to fight the ball, spoiled the effectiveness of this mode of gaining ground. With greater attention to detail, the Harvard passing game should become a threat against the Blue of Yale...
...Chaucerians and Tennysonians felt sorely bereaved when there burned to the ground the 648-year-old Grantchester Mill, mentioned by Poet Chaucer and hymned by Poet Tennyson in his "The Miller's Daughter...
...Cavalier has Richard Talmadge, long popular in horse-and-pistol pictures, playing two parts-El Caballero, rescuer of the daughter of an impoverished grandee, and Taki, a good Indian helping the other poor Indians, ground down by Spain in South America. He flings that dagger through the window, is chased by those bloodhounds, jumps over that wall, snatches that bride at the altar onto his horse and, as they approach the leap over the ravine, says, "It may mean-Death. . . ." at which she answers, "Death . . . with you. . . ." Spectators lingered in the hope that at some point in this nonsensical fairbanking...
Silver spade cut lightly into Pittsburgh soil, scooped up a scant quart of mineral-laden earth. Ground had been broken for the $10,000,000 power plant of the Duquesne Light Co. on Brunot's Island in the Ohio River.* Celebrities and guests boarded the steamship Manitou, chatted away the half-hour trip from the Island back to the city proper. In the earth, the cut remained...