Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...river, that a solution to the parking problem must be found. The problem is simply that the City of Cambridge doggedly prohibits parking on the streets overnight, muttering about fire hazards and snow removal, although neither the fire department nor the snow removers have complained. In the back-ground sits a group of garage owners who will continue to wax and grow fat as long as the street parking ban remains. If the University wants to solve the parking problem, it should turn from its distant swamp across the river, from a lot which nobody will want. It should look...
Yukio Ozaki persisted. He had shoots taken from cherry trees near Tokyo and grafted on wild cherry roots. Set out in disinfected ground, the new trees grew pest-free and in 1911 Ozaki shipped 3,000 of them to Washington. This time the trees were found acceptable and planted along Washington's Tidal Basin...
...stay in Berlin through Whitsuntide. The Germans appreciated the point, were tremendously cheered by the display. U.S. strength might or might not give pause to the Reds next Sunday; whatever happened, they could not say that they had not been warned of America's determination to stand its ground in Berlin...
...year-old Peekskill (N.Y.) Military Academy, Head Chef James Hankins is almost as much a tradition as the oak at the corner of the parade ground which once served as a gallows, for a Revolutionary War spy. White-capped James, a Virginia-born Negro who has been known to generations of Peekskill cadets, has a simple explanation for his steady popularity. "Good cooking is the main thing with boys...
...wind stream (seldom more than 100 mi. wide) and only some 5,000 ft. deep, it is hard to pinpoint exactly on a weather map. Airplanes flying high toward the west in the middle latitudes are apt to head into an uncharted jet stream and find their ground speed cut in half. Flying east, they may hitch a ride on a stream and cover great distances in greatly reduced time...