Word: grounded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wire string snored in the sky. Stretched across heaven, above the mudflats of the airdrome at Norfolk, the string of some invisible instrument threw down its drone to the ground. A seaplane tipped out of a cloud. The singing stretched before and behind it like a wire. In the plane Major Mario de Bernardi of Italy moved through a last kilometre of air. He had won the Schneider Cup race. His speed, unprecedented, was 246.496 miles an hour...
...Pancakes made of ground maize...
...liquor distilled from ground corn...
...good many of the moderns is not to be denied and that this expression is often artistic and beautiful is likewise true. But the idea of self expression "to help gave the world" would hardly fit in with true Romanticist idea of the order of things. The ground work of art in human experience does not allow it to become objective in the role of a savior and this also applies to literature. Mr. Lewisolin's true place is that of a defender of Romanticism as he shows in the early part of the article and not as a peacemaker...
...Guthrie asks the deletion of the statement, which appears in a campaign pamphlet of the Endowment Fund Committee, on the ground that it gives a false impression that it was made after Mr. Taft became chief justice. W. M. Powell '96, chairman of the committee, has refused to omit the statement, and Mr. Guthrie wrote him yesterday, stating his reason for asking for the withdrawal of the phrase...