Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weather prophets advised against the start. Lieut. Henry B. Clark, in charge of Roosevelt Field (L. I.) declared it would be a miracle if the plane succeeded in leaving the ground. But the young ace thought of his Mexican bride, climbed into the cockpit of his Ryan monoplane, set out on the return flight to Mexico City. Early the next morning a berry picker stumbled across his body, the remnants of his plane, mired in a New Jersey bog. Declining a warship, Mexico requested that a funeral train speed to the border, then pass slowly through the countryside with military...
...that he could fertilize seeds with phosphate salts making fertilization of the soil unnecessary. For three years he has worked on the problem; finally he developed a method of seed treatment on a large scale at low cost. Barley so treated yielded a 15-fold increase in phosphorus-poor ground. Untreated barley seed in the same soil yielded no crop...
Taxi: To run an airplane over the ground, or a seaplane on the surface of the water, under its own power...
Twelve swart women wrapped in garish blankets squatted around a picnic ground on the bank of the Arkansas River near Kaw, Okla. Five old men the color of tanbark squatted in the middle of the clearing, balancing a broad tom-tom on their crossed feet...
King George II (deposed) of Greece figured in the ballyhoo. The Floranada Club had offered to him a house with "cool rooms overlooking tropical gardens," if he would buy a plot of ground in the community. Among the questions asked Promoter Cromwell by the bankruptcy lawyers was: "Had you ever considered that the King might turn the place into a Greek restaurant...