Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obtaining Nationalist (Monarchist) support for the passage of the Experts' Plan legislation, the Chancellor had promised the Nationalists four seats in the Cabinet. He was, however, anxious to admit a certain number of Social Democrats (Socialists). But the Nationalists threw up their heads, planted their feet firmly on the ground, refused to collaborate with Socialists. At length, the Chancellor gave way. As a compromise between the Democrats (not Socialists), who were hostile to the Nationalists, he asked the latter to accept three instead of four seats. The Nationalists accepted the offer, but the Democrats balked ?never would they cooperate...
...will give you the method of science, but we will not stoop so low as to give you any science." Evidently claptrap is contagious, for since when have educators withheld the material body of knowledge from their students? Under German tutelage, universities became gristmills of fact, which ground small the meal of knowledge and then stuffed it into the puppet's head. More recently, educators have begun to recognize that the method of searching out, weighing, and using the facts which life presents to men is more important than any encyclopedia of knowledge. The ability to grasp and reason with...
...individual has contributed so much to make it the scene of Harvard football might and skill as Haughton. By using to the utmost his great power of persuasion he firmly implanted in the minds of his pupils the theme that the Stadium was no ordinary football field but Harvard ground. The results he achieved make glorious Harvard history...
...masts, fifty feet high, are to be placed on top of the west tower of the Stadium from which will be hung a cage aerial of about 50 feet in length. This will give the aerial, when it is up, a clearance of approximately 150 feet above the ground...
Last year the Wireless Club, in spite of its poor location on the ground floor of Westmorley succeeded in maintaining almost continuous communication with European countries, especially England. At that time numerous messages were handled for men in college without charge...