Word: grounded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Because the public is little likely to suffer, with large supplies of anthracite above ground, and plentiful supplies of soft coal and other substitutes available...
...University acted as public orator, skilfully avoided use of the word "republic." He declared that the "outside world still listens keenly when it hears the name of Weimar, although it is not thoroughly convinced when the Constitution of Weimar is mentioned." The Constitution, he added, is "holding a middle ground between Communism in the East and individualism in the West. "We must," said he, "emancipate ourselves from this mad tendency to permit our national life to become Americanized ; we must find our way back to the German soul...
...feet in the earth. He, Perry, was the only living soul that could operate the marvelous machine, which he did by bringing a small container filled with crude oil into contact with the silken thread. The principle that would cause the indication of the presence of oil in the ground, he explained, was the natural one that "like attracts like." Furthermore, the machine would indicate other buried minerals?copper, gold, coal, iron?if properly "primed...
...with it nervously, then flitted about the village setting fire to the houses. Back scampered the village population. Grachev welcomed them by firing a shotgun at them. Seventeen people dropped dead, many others groaned from their wounds, 13 of the village's 14 houses were burned to the ground. Grachev fled. To him revenge was very sweet...
There was a sudden sputtering on the ground near the plane; combusting chemicals burst into a furious glare illuminating that desolate place with the radiance of an unearthly daylight, and revealing to the campers a scene unique, electrifying, sculptural...