Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...approximately 250,000 more than the country was using daily. Therefore most operators had to take what money they could for their oil. Refiners at the same time were reluctant to buy more oil than they could sell. It is expensive to keep oil in storage tanks above ground. Prices have gone down, reflected indirectly in the recent reductions of gasoline prices (TIME, May 9). For the consuming public this situation is good; for the operators (including investors in oil properties...
...opinion set forth in an editorial in "Liberty" which takes up the cause of natural expressions such as "He don't" and "It's me" as opposed to the stilted "He doesn't" and "It's I." "Ain't," the writer admits with a sigh, is gradually losing ground in its fight to supplant the awkward "am not" or "aren...
Miss Haldane has sympathy both for George Eliot and for her times. She says of the novelist's unsuccessful attempts at verses, "we have to thank their author for raising her eyes to the stars even if, like the old philosopher, her footsteps sometimes stumbled on the ground." She is at her best in discussing the novels; frankly stating the defects of each and the length and the occasional excursions into philosophy which hold off the modern reader, she yet brings out strongly the beauty, truth and power of the author at her best. She writes as one who admires...
...title, "Immortal Longings," the reviewer fails to find the connection. Walter Overlook has a very natural longing for the lady of his choice, whom he looks upon rather indelicately as "a piece of fallow and unseeded ground that lies steaming and smoking in the sun." There seem to be no other longings...
...other approach to this work must consider the two volumes as a factor themselves in the civilization which the Beards have tried to describe. Here the ground is full of pit-falls, which the Beards themselves have wisely avoided but which their work has made more obvious and less inevitable. There are students of American civilization who see in this country some signs of a growing self-consciousness, who suspect that as the earlier struggle against geographical frontiers produced its efflorescence in what one of these students has not ineptly termed "the golden days", so the present struggle against social...