Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Graves '31 and Captain A. E. French '29 were the outstanding ground gainers for the University team and each scored a touchdown. G. C. Holbrook '30 accounted for the third touchdown, while T.W. Gilligan '31 was the only one to negotiate successfully the try for point when his dropkick crossed the bar after Holbrook's score...
...world. Obviously also, if you have been an ace, you understand that the majority of aeronautical accidents are the pilot's fault and that being up in the air, so long as no one is shooting at you from another plane, is as safe as being on the ground and much more pleasant. Accordingly, the de Sibours would go around the world in a $3,250 airplane which uses 4½ gallons of gas and not quite a pint of oil per hour. It is a blue and silver Moth, named Safari II. The de Sibours will fly only...
Luckee Girl. Having borrowed their title from a well-known article of feminine apparel and the refrain of their best song ("Come On Let's Make Whoopee") from the works of a well-known drama critic (Walter Winchell, who, on the ground of an antique enmity, was denied entrance to the premiere), the Brothers Shubert were content to borrow the rest of their second musical production of the week from a thousand previous productions of the same kind. The lucky girl is a midinette who, after an innocent cohabitation with the hero in the environs of Montparnasse, almost loses...
Very placid is the river Housatonic as it winds through the Berkshire valleys. So even, so quiet is its flow that it is easily able to mirror the gentle, green elevations of ground which the Berkshire dwellers call hills, and which enthusiastic tourists like to call mountains. As gentle as the hills, as placid as the river, the Berkshire villages rise to break the pleasant monotony of the landscape. Their generous houses, most white and clean, front on broad streets with here and there a stretch of New England common. Their lawns slope gracefully to the languid river. Such...
...distributed over ten levels of stacks six of which lie above the level of the main entrance, designated by numerals and four below indicated by letter. Sufficient light on the lowest level is afforded by the center light well which extends about is feet below the outside ground level...