Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been sighted in the distance, the eager crowd thought it was Jensen's machine. Mrs. Jensen collapsed when she saw that the leader wasn't her "Marty." About two hours later Jensen's Aloha landed. Happy though she was that Martin was safely on the ground again, Mrs. Jensen's first words showed her disappointment over his not being the winer. She said: "Marty, wher'n 'ell have you been...
...other student. It was the first time I the had ever tasted an strong evening liquor but it was not my last. Many an evening --- and myself caroused, either in my little room or in the Dean's office (to which he had the keys) on the drinking ground floor...
Since the miners struck, operators have remanned their mines with non-union labor. To prevent the union men from interfering, the operators have obtained court injunctions against them, chiefly on the ground that to interfere with coal-mining is to hamper interstate trade. These injunctions have been detailed and drastic and in Pennsylvania, to back them up, the operators have obtained special state-appointed policemen, whose salaries the operators pay. Vice President Murray's report dwelt at length on the technique of these special policemen, whom he styled "gun-men," "thugs." Coalminers are not a fragile, thin-skinned...
...property in Liverpool, Bootle, Kirkdale and Walton consisted of free hold and ground rents on 20,000 houses, Lord Derby retaining all his rights as lord of the various manors. These rights have endured ever since the creation of the earldom...
...There are so many candidates [for teaching positions] that there is danger of losing much of the ground gained during and since the War in making salaries more nearly match the work done," warned Dean Arthur Herbert Wilde of Boston University's school of education last week. "Teachers now in service need to advise very carefully all their younger friends who are looking toward teaching. Unless they have strong purpose and scholarship and attractive personality, these young people should be turned away from the teaching profession." Every teacher, man or woman, must come to regard teaching as a permanent...