Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work of these men is particularly interesting in its relationship to the college, for it becomes more apparent with each new development in this period of flux in the evolution of the college curriculum that before any racial or important changes can be effective in higher education the ground must be fully prepared in the primary, and, more specifically, in the secondary schools. For purposes of effective cooperation in order to avoid those dangerous pitfalls which yawn for the incoming Freshman whenever the purposes of school and college diverge even slightly from the parallel, no finer means could be devised...
...Herr President deserved all praise for thus squarely putting up to his own Nationalist friends the issue of joining the Government at the price of supporting the Republic. This was an act of genuine statesmanship, of greatness, yet it must be remembered that many another German statesman prepared the ground for the bold step which the Herr President took, and forced the Nationalists to take last week...
...white plume can be found for today's drama it waves upon the vizors of the "debunking" playwrights. In the first squad of their foremost legion marches Maxwell Anderson. He collaborated with Laurence Stallings to write What Price Glory? in which War's bravura of blah is ground into...
...didn't need the thing, anyhow." Among his achievements is securing the acquittal of a political friend charged with being the father of an illegitimate child. The able lawyer's "women folks" object to his consorting with politically influential bums, whereupon he beseeches them "not to go over that ground again. Business is business." But in the last act, his own cherished sister is in trouble, and on account of one of these very same friends. So Lawyer Connell learns his lesson, makes a good resolution just before he goes out on his last questionable trial in behalf...
After falling five stories to the ground from the top of the Harvard Medical School Dormitory on Longwood Avenue, Patrick J. Duggan, forty-five years old, of 59 Delle avenue, Roxbury, went home, stopping briefly on the way at the City, Hospital, where he was treated for injuries...