Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went to make up Harvard College; those elements have yet to depreciate in value. Since then, since the foundation of what was initially purely a New England institution, foreign ingredients have been introduced and it is the opinion of not a few that these new constituents mingle on equal ground with the original ones. And it Puritan bigotry has been rejected in favor of a cosmopolitan liberalism, the fire of Puritan inspiration burns no less brightly...
...statement made in TIME, Aug. 29, on p. 10 in regard to Professor Ellen Hayes. Miss Hayes is not, and never has been, the head of the English department at Wellesley College. She was for many years Professor of Astronomy and Applied Mathematics but retired on the ground of age in 1916 and has not been connected with the College since that date...
Bouncer. Lieut, L. E. Hunting's plane was guilty of treachery, but the flyer returned good for evil. Going into a tail spin at low altitude, the plane hit the ground, bounced, but somehow he held it in the air. Realizing the landing gear was crushed, he scorned the safety of his parachute, circled, flew to nearby Kelly Field (San Antonio, Tex.)' and eased the ship down so gently that it stopped virtually undamaged...
Career. In 1882, when Egypt was a backward province paying heavy tribute to the Sultan at Constantinople, when the Sudan was the happy hunting ground of murderous, dancing dervishes, the 21-year-old ZaghJul took part in his first revolt. It was led by Colonel Arabi against the Khedive and the British, was squelched by Viscount Wolseley...
...Belmar, N. J., one Ralph Berardi clanged his bell and cried his cry in front of the house of a Mrs. Minnie Levine. Out came Mrs. Levine with a pair of scissors. Mr. Berardi ground them for her on his scissors-grinder as expertly as he could. Mrs. Levine eyed the result, her lips in a purse of doubt. Suddenly she seized Mr. Berardi by his baggy trousers. Snip! Before you could say "Spaghetti" she had sliced a gaping moon out of one trouser, right at the knee. Ventilated, humilitated Mr. Berardi rushed to court...