Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...qualify any one to arrive at conclusions, but they have shown us the complexity and the multitude of Indian problems. Each province, in fact, has its own difficulties and their solution will not be found in a repetition of vague generalities. India is the real meeting ground of the East and West...
When it was seen that the Princess zu Schaumburg-Lippe continued to supply Debauchee Zubkov with funds and seemed to dote upon his antics, the German Government proceeded recently to expel him from the Fatherland on the ground that he has no valid passport. Since then he has been in Brussels, Belgium, still wineing and womening without stint, but under threat of momentary expulsion. Thus a problem has been set before doting Princess Victoria-where shall her Zubkov now roister, tweak, and make champagne-rain...
...Imperial Police had arrested in a secret raid 1,013 Opposition sympathizers of whom 26 were being held as Communists, on charges of attempting to subvert the state and throne. Followed at once, from the Ministry of Home Affairs, an order for the dissolution of the Ronoto, on the ground that it had become a Communist organization. In Japan, as everyone knows, the practice or preaching of Communism has been illegal since 1923. Suppressed along with the Ronoto, last week, were two sympathetic organizations: the League of Proletarian Youth and the Japanese Labor Council...
...College, which is distinguished from the University as being for undergraduates, is located in a plot of ground about three blocks square, surrounded on two sides by a low wooden fence...
...mother of two sons who died in the War, had very little money; she had to sell the book her friend had given her. Going away from Sotheby's auction rooms, she looked as startled as the other Alice might have looked on the Queen's Croquet Ground...