Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...shortage. Their production was delayed by the frequent changes of plans, necessitated by new inventions and experiments. Their manufacture is now established and many of these winged ships should be on the other side before long. We must send them until the hardiest Fokker prefers staying close to the ground...
...CRIMSON and Lampy has been postponed, much to the chagrin of the thousands who were planning to gather along the river bank this afternoon. Trainer Ibis, B.S. '64, after grilling his men for two weeks at Bertram Hall, Radcliffe, went forth yesterday for a final inspection of the battle ground. One look was enough to cause him to flee...
...rooms on the ground floor there is a pathetic relic of Rheims Cathedral, which has recently been sent to the Museum by a French friend of the University, who was here last year. It is a bit of molten lead which had fallen down from the roof on to the pavement, catching one or two little scraps of stone work in its fall. The relic has sentimental but not artistic value...
...school as it now exists at Tech. is substantially the same as it has been, although the instruction is now given only to officers of the non-flying branches of the Signal Corps. Instead of the ground school course that has been given heretofore, these men will receive instruction in aeronautical engineering. At the present time there are only a few men in attendance at the school, but a large number is expected soon...
...added to nor taken away from, yet in this case it is essential that action be quick and that opposition be reduced to a minimum. There is, unfortunately, a great possibility that the same radical elements which have made themselves felt before will oppose the measure on the ground that many roads will continue extravagant management and dividends of unnecessary size; they may do their utmost to so reduce the compensation and restrict the owners that some roads will not be able to stand up under the strain. Such conditions would not only be unjust to bond and stockholders...