Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...hoped that the group will provide a common ground for discussion by those of varying opinions on the best method of keeping America at peace...
Until this year, a small bird called Ross's goose had a unique distinction: it was the only North American goose or duck whose breeding ground was not known...
Every year for four years Ornithologist Charles E. Gillham of the Biological Survey in Washington has trekked into northern Canada, to ask natives questions about the Ross's goose. It was suspected that their breeding ground was somewhere near the mouth of the Perry River, which runs into the Arctic Ocean at Queen Maud Gulf, southeast of big Victoria Island. Last summer Gillham chartered a plane, flew over the Perry River region, saw so many of the birds that he was certain the breeding grounds were there. But floating ice in the bay prevented a landing...
There were four creamy white eggs in the average clutch. The men took two goose specimens and five eggs, started back down the river. Last week the specimens and eggs were safe at the Canadian National Museum in Ottawa, and it was announced to the world that the breeding ground of Ross's goose, sought for more than a half-century, had been found...
...Arizona are merely background for the scufflings of these representatives of good & evil as they wind their way through Indian fights, cattle rustling, military occupation by both Confederate and Union troops. Like any horse opera, big or small, the picture provides more gunplay than the Aberdeen, Md. Proving Ground...