Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, outgoing Commissioner Chisolm advised the President that prison conditions are so radically different in different countries that "I couldn't reach any com mon ground or make any progress." He also flayed the U. S. for giving him only a "measly" appropriation...
Farm Relief was given more time than any other subject. The orator began with analysis and expression of deep solicitude. He totally avoided "equalization fee." His promises: 1) "to search out the common ground"; 2) benefit of tariff; 3) waterways, principally Great Lakes to Atlantic; 4) Federal Farm Board with money to spend. ... "A nation which is spending ninety billions a year can well afford an expenditure of a few hundred millions for a workable program that will give to one-third of its population their fair share of the nation's prosperity. . . . The working out of agricultural relief...
Twelve special trains chuffed into the small town of Rzeszow, last week, bearing 10,000 docile prisoners, guarded by some 1,000 police. Soon a large military drill ground was fitted out with grandstands and constituted as an open air courtroom. Only 62 lawyers and 100 witnesses were present. The 10,000 defendants were charged with malfeasance as petty officials of the Polish Railway Men's Benevolent Society, which has only 21,000 members. The case, first heard at Lwow last year, with a mere 6,000 defendants present, will now proceed in earnest, is expected to drag...
...Kingston, North Carolina, small Willard Watson, 13, equipped two aged hens with wing planes and pushed them off the roof of a barn, 20 feet above ground. One hen glided about 50 feet, settled in a duck pond, whence she was rescued. The other tail-spinned, dropped, broke...
...pound polar bear and taking him aboard ship alive, hobnobbing with colonies of seals, strange birds, Eskimos. North of Alaska, on Herald Island, they found the remains of a tent, guns, cooking utensils and the bones of four men lying, side by side, on the frozen ground. The Snows, father and son, buried the bones, solemnly, and then raised a flag claiming Herald Island for the U. S. Explorer Stefansson commented on the film via Movietone...