Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...starts, but'she doesn't arrive anywhere," male fliers used to say of Jacqueline ("Jackie") Cochran. Blonde, jolly Miss Cochran (Mrs. Floyd Odium on the ground) made them mend such talk in 1938, when she outflew nine men and won the arduous, annual Bendix Trophy Race in 8 hours, 10 minutes, 31.4 seconds (male record: 7 hours, 54 minutes, 26.31 seconds). Last week she popped another speed mark into her bagful of trophies and records: 2.000 kilometers (1,242.74 miles) from Burbank, Calif, to Albuquerque, N. M. and back in 3 hours, 44 minutes, 47 seconds...
...could see it steadily and whole. Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, for all its savor, its dusty truth, was only a bucketful of that subject. Authentic handfuls may be found in Booth Tarkington, Willa Gather, Edgar Lee Masters. Kings Row, an intelligent attempt to cover the whole ground, is worthy of respect and worth reading, but it is not the hoped-for article...
...further discussion. What is more important is the fact that while a ten million dollar building is being erected for the admittedly noble purpose of housing the work of old masters, plans are being made for what will eventually lead to the abolition of a very necessary training ground for children, some of whom, if only given the opportunity, will be looked upon as old masters by future generations...
...hole was blowed in him? There is also a certain social distinction ("There goes the man who killed Little Jack Combs. He did it with a big, shiny .44. It made a big, round hole in Little Jack's belly. And Little Jack laid there on the ground, talkin' before he died...
...present generation, still curious about Uncle Tom's Cabin as the greatest propaganda novel in the history of the U. S., has little feeling for it as the greatest hokum play in the history of the world. Harriet Beecher Stowe fought against having her book dramatized, on the ground that if people began going to Christian plays they would end up going to un-Christian ones. But in an age before U. S. copyright laws protected the author's dramatic rights, Uncle Tom was pirated (by Actor G. L. Aiken and others), with never a cent of royalties...