Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sash and a dagger in his hand is suddenly pounced upon by an unarmed man of burly figure clad in impeccable morning clothes. They grapple. The bandit is forced to the wall and nearly strangled. The hand that held the dagger opens and the dagger rattles to the ground...
Stevens during his Sophomore and Junior years was a versatile back and one of Yale's most consistent ground gainers. In his Senior year he was ineligible. During the last few seasons, while a student at the Medical School, he has been assisting T. A. D. Jones on the coaching staff...
...statement more positive than this double negative would have given Switzer land ground for offense; but Chancellor Seipel had made his meaning crystal clear. He heads a Republican Government which would gladly offer to the League for a headquarters the old, enormous, sumptuous Imperial Palace of the Habsburgs at Vienna. Thus the League would save itself the expense of building a new headquarters at Geneva to replace the present ramshackle Secretariat and the mouldering Salle de la Reformation (where the Assembly sits). Reputedly the League has considered spending ?1,000,000 on its proposed new buildings and most of that...
...breathed more freely, having escaped the blushful consequences of its own temerity by a road which did not contravene Wisconsin's broad avenue of free speech. In their excitement, however, the students quite missed Dr. Frank's subtler point and announced that the cancellation was on "moral" grounds instead of the less debatable ground of good taste...
Soon the fake was detected. The stories were all so insistent upon the name of Mlle. Roseray's stamping ground, upon the name of her partner, upon the tremendous reputation she had built up for herself, upon her beauty, upon the loss to the theatrical world which would have been the result of her decease, that astute editors became suspicious. The next day some of them printed stories about how the fake had been effected, not forgetting to stress the foxlike guile of Mlle. Roseray's press-agent who had fooled all the clever reporters. The witty, wisecracking...