Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More than this, the changed editorial policy of the Bruin, is assailable not alone on the well trod ground of freedom of speech and thought its essence is error. The university daily is as far from the jurisdiction of student government as the New York Times is from the supervision of the Customs Bureau. It is difficult to bound the province of student government. Control of athletics by such a body may be conceded; it may also be questioned. But student government and student journalism are epiphenomena...
...rides-for-a-nickel are economically obsolete. Last winter the I. R. T. asked the State authorities to authorize a 7-cent fare. Refused, the I. R. T. sought a Federal court order restraining New York City and State from preventing the collection of 7-cent fares, on the ground that the 5-cent fare was confiscatory. Last week, the I. R. T. obtained a 38-page Federal decision allowing the 7-cent fare temporarily. Mayor James J. Walker and his famed predecessor, John F. Hylan, both announced promptly that they would run for Mayor again on 5-cent platforms...
Last week, at Curtiss Field, Long Island, Bonney tested his finally completed Gull. It flew. For half a mile it traveled in a burst of speed. Bonney waved his arm in triumph. And then the Gull nosed down to earth and dived straight into the ground, a mass of wreckage. Bonney landed on his head 20 feet away, with only moments left to live...
...rumbled at Corinth, a telegraph operator frantically clicked off the words: "Help! Help! All is lost!" Over, and over he repeated the frenzied message. Then the earth reeled, the telegraph office collapsed, crushing the operator, and, with a universal cataclysmic roar, virtually every building in Corinth tumbled to the ground...
...smaller fry of editors and publishers at the A. N. P. A. convention saw a small electric sign on the ground floor of the Waldorf-Astoria. It read...