Word: groundlessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Legends that the mongoose crossbreeds with rats, that it can hypnotize a snake with its glassy stare (or vice versa), are groundless. But because mongooses eat rats, mice and large insects, in addition to snakes and birds and their eggs, they have been found useful. Indian natives keep them as protective house pets...
...might be, of course, suggested that this eavesdropper was someone who dearly loved and trusted the Mayor, but who still preferred to make sure her suspicious were groundless just for her own satisfaction. Or again, perhaps the wiretapper's admiration for the Mayor's personality led him to take this opportunity to listen in to become more intimate with and perhaps to capture its secret...
...fears were groundless as the watery expanse below. Stormy Cape Hatteras loomed 20 leagues away and thereafter the pudgy craft snuggled the land. Over Washington she passed and was eyed by President Coolidge, which was properly reported in boxed press notices. Manhattan viewers had themselves thrilled to vicarious trans-Atlantic flying. Baltimore loomed and was drawn away from Philadelphia and its identifying rivers, the Schuylkill and the Delaware, guided the ship toward Trenton. With Commander Rosendahl at the bridge, familiar upper-New Jersey hillets and meadows revolved like a slow treadmill, until the heterogeneous mass of the Manhattan topography...
Harvard men have traditionally considered themselves immune to the charms of the feminine division of the University, but this blind confidence has been proven groundless. Indeed statistics recently acquired show that no inconsiderable part of the undergraduate body succumb to the attractions of their Cambridge neighbors...
...fears that someone might try to take his place were not groundless. Other men soon joined him. They too slept in front of the door...