Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because of the fence it was not a home-run. The ground rules permitted only two bases...
Trianon, if the League refuses to adjudicate; on the ground that the treaty provides for settlement of Hungarian grievances against the Allies through the machinery of the League of Nations...
...They would show Chicago something to write postcards about-the largest and tallest building in the world-75 stories and 845 feet high . . . containing 4,650,000 sq. ft. of floor space . . . costing $45,000.000 . . . covering two blocks with its base . . . comprising a 23 story "apparel-mart" near the ground . . . above that 22 stories of office space . . . above that a 1,000 room hotel ... a garage containing space for 1,200 cars ... a railroad station under the ground . . . swimming pool, auditoriums, restaurants, shops, three clubs scattered about on various floors. . . . Thus, the Apparel Manufacturers' Mart which will be erected...
...Masonic Temple, where the convention held its sessions, the exposition was placed on the ground floor. Here could be seen, in 300 booths, the result of the enterprise of 225 individual exhibitors. Newssheets, manufacturers, magazines, cinema companies, mechanical contrivances were brought to the attention of the advertising men. Upstairs the convention functioned, deciding among other things, that despite the advantages of radio advertising, newspaper and magazines were still the best mediums for comprehensive campaigns; next to newspapers, magazines. On the last day of their convention, they selected Minneapolis, after many words in favor of Berlin, as the scene of next...
...fleeting encounter with his father, aristocrat of animals. And not till he has proved himself worthy of his father's company does the old stag lead Bambi to a solitary haunt, and teach him the necessity of aloneness. He shows him a poacher lying foolishly shot to the ground, forces Bambi to realize that man is not all-powerful, as fawns and silly does suppose, but that there must be a higher power over...