Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, while Fliers von Huenefeld, Koehl and Fitzmaurice triumphed in Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, etc. etc., it was reported that the Bremen, still stranded at Greenly Island, might not be able to fly away if it were not fetched before spring thaws softened the ground. To spare the heroes a break in their tour, the War Department last week announced an expedition to Greenly Island in two amphibian planes commanded by Major General James E. Fechet, Chief of the Army Air Corps. A pilot of the Junkers Corporation was taken along, to be dropped on Greenly Island by parachute...
...Chicago, one Lawrence OToole was last week cited for contempt of court. Reason: serving on a jury to try five boy gangsters who had held up a grocer and killed him for resisting, Lawrence O'Toole favored lenience on the ground that any "free American" should be "free to stage a holdup, if he could get away with...
...Wodehouse's humorous story, Jeeves Carries On. I was so absorbed that I did not look to see what I was doing and consequently did not realize that I was putting both feet into one pajama leg. A moment later I stood up, overbalanced, fell to the ground and dislocated my shoulder...
Instead of being a mere attempt to cover a vast and familiar ground more rapidly than is predecessors, this book represents rather an interpretation of history. The author conceives of history not as a landscape dominated by a few peaks of great attainments, but as a stream which is flowing constantly onward, running faster, perhaps, at some times than at others. Evolution is the central theme of his book, and he selects for treatment those salient facts which testify to the evolutionary process. This choice limits the range of factual discussion, and the principle governing the choice distinguishes the book...
Football is a game of unending upsets and contradictions, baseball games may turn on the uncertain news of a pitcher or on an irregularity in the ground, but in track the dopesters and the mathematician may stiff command attention. Track performances vary, but they usually vary within limits. And it is these limits that give purpose and excuse to the pre-meet mathematicians who about this time of year begin to flood the sporting pages with their carefully weighed prognostications...