Major development work began in the 1920s, and by 1930 the ground had lost its original shape.
At best, ground zero has lost the ability to stand for freedom of speech, that most American principle.
But black households have recovered only the ground lost since 1983, when the rate was 45.6 percent.
Give a man sympathy at the wrong moment, and you never regained the ground lost.
The ground had long ago lost any heat from the previous day.
It was a spacecraft, high enough to catch a sun that the ground had lost half an hour since.
Technology issues recovered some ground lost earlier in the week.
All of the increase only retraces ground lost since January 1997.
The middle ground, the basis of democracy, is losing itself.
Increasingly, the middle ground lost to the growing political polarisation of the right or left.