Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...July 13 last, TIME printed a story which stressed the prominent part played by a donkey, a lemonade stand, an ice cream booth, at the ground-breaking ceremonies of Dr. Reisner's Broadway Tabernacle, Manhattan. The Christian Century "rewrote" this story, without mentioning the fact that it had rewritten it from TIME. When Dr. Reisner wrote a letter to TIME denying that the ground-breaking ceremonies had been unChristlike, undignified, TIME printed his letter (TIME, Aug. 31) but made public note of the fact that the Christian Century had also misrepresented Dr. Reisner-as much as to imply that...
...greatly in your issue of Sept. 7, Page 10, centre column: "Incarnadined" is too long and fancy a word for such a plain paragraph. On the same page "grooved only with the austere colophon." You are reading the dictionary too much. Page 30 - last two lines : "shoveled into the ground at Potter's field." Very inaccurate ; a corpse is too big to shovel handily. WM. E. CLARK...
...Bascom Slemp, onetime (1923-25) Secretary to President Coolidge, called at the White House office. He did not come for the pleasure of looking over his former stamping ground, but went in order to advocate the appointment of a Judge in Virginia and the Carolinas...
...believe in curbing free speech, nor do I believe in making this country the stamping ground for every revolutionary agitator of other countries. This is no place for them. Nobody, I believe, will object to any citizen of the United States advocating a change of our form of Government by legal and constitutional means, but I do not believe we should admit foreigners to this country to preach anarchy or a revolutionary overthrow of Government...
...home an address in support of his measure that was calculated to leave not a mind unpersuaded. The assembly rose to its feet and cheered. Then it suddenly sat down and realized it had made a faux pas. Throughout the rest of the week the mills of Britannia slowly ground Count Apponyi's resolution to nothingness. The hour for "putting teeth into the League...