Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...logic, bantering, merciless. Impeachment, they said, was a formal accusation, not a conviction. And it is the duty of the House to impeach?i.e., formally accuse?any official who they have sufficient reason to believe has not lived up to the standards of his office. Crass ignorance may be ground for impeachment, or drunkenness or indecent conduct. Improper use of influence should certainly result in impeachment. Ungrammatical Representative Reed of Illinois suggested to the House that "if a lot of you people were to be impeached for some of your conduct in using your influence, there would...
Since the first of the year, correspondents at Bucharest have amused themselves by announcing the fall of the Bratiano cabinet every other week while denying this eventuality between times. The truth of the matter has been that Premier Jon Bratiano's Liberal party has indeed been losing ground, as was indicated recently at the minor municipal elections; and with the parliamentary elections now immediately in the offing, it was thought that he would prefer to step down from power a little in advance of the coming storm. The correspondents seized upon every rumor that he had resigned and cabled...
...satisfaction of his scientific audience that man is directly descended from an upright, walking anthropoid. The lowest form of living ape, the gibbon, is the only animal that runs on two feet like man. Other apes hop and leap or go to all fours when on the ground, and are never more than semierect in natural pose. Therefore, he concludes, their present posture has been acquired...
Winter in the Caucasus is severe, almost Arctic. The snow covers the ground to a depth of ten feet or more while for the thermometer to register 25 degrees below zero is not the exception but the rule. Under these conditions the refugees of the Near East can live only if, through the charity of peoples more fortunate than they, they obtain clothing to protect them from the elements...
Friendliness in these huge institutions is confined to very small units, indeed, through no fault of the students, perhaps, since the structure of the university life affords no daily meeting ground for the interchange of amenities. The discouragement of intimate association, such as all colleges used to foster among all students, is one of the serious short-comings of the prodigious educational plants. It seems that some artifice must be adopted to make their atmosphere less gelid, and the most natural recourse is to attempt, by some such arrangement as the Harvard committee favors, to bring back to the university...