Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lady's dismissal has been upheld by the Loyalty Review Board and by a Federal Judge, who sustained the dismissal on the ground that the FBI report contained "hearsay evidence", which he defended as admissible in French courts...
Taliback Jim Noonan, who won't see action against Dartmouth here Saturday, is pacing the Crimson offense after four games with a total of 287 yards, all but 15 of them gained through the air. Noonan was Harvard's leading ground-gainer last year with 492 yards...
Clayton, whose throws have paced the Dartmouth attack this year, didn't use his talents along these lines much last year. The Big Green, sparked by Hal Fitkin, stuck pretty much to the ground in ending the Crimson...
Firsts & Fans. Though Lux Theater is careful not to offend, it has its moments of daring. Lux "broke ground in the radio field" by casting such opera stars as Lawrence Tibbett, Lily Pons and Helen Jepson in acting roles. The show boldly signed Radio Comics Jack Benny and Burns & Allen for "their first dramatic parts." And it induced Ronald Colman and Shirley Temple, "long holdouts from radio," to make their debuts...
Thus began the career of W. C. Fields. He slept, successively, in a hole in the ground, a forge, a bran trough in a livery stable, a barrel and a saloon toilet. To eat, he scavenged saloons and stole. Backsliding into respectability, he lived for a while with his grandmother, who made him get a job as a store "cash boy"-a trying occupation for a boy as sorely tempted as Fields was. Then, at the age of 14, he became a juggler in an amusement park. After that, his only work was to make people laugh...