Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...buried from the White House. The second occasion was during the Civil War when an officer was shot hauling down a Confederate flag at Alexandria. The third occasion was in 1890 when the wife and daughter of Secretary of the Navy Tracy died, when their house burned to the ground...
...Premiership; but he still holds the reins, and his grip grows stronger, if anything. Whether his French counterpart will fare so-happily will depend upon his success in finding the common purpose of his variegated groups and in keeping this bond of political fellowship swell in the fore-ground...
...There cannot exist, in these critical days, an American with soul so dead that he has never reflected on the inherent clumsiness of his government; on the inadequacy of his public law in coping with the major problems of economic life; on the futility of most of the legislation ground out by busy state assemblies. Yet in the face of these defects which one might assume to be obvious to foreign observers, the Russians, says Mr. Recht, "are borrowing our system of Government; both Federal and State laws of the United States are being copied." The only hope that...
...airscrew must then act as a giant parachute. When one man sails down gently in a parachute its supporting area must be over 100 square feet. It is enormously difficult to provide a supporting area enough to prevent a 2,000 pound machine from crashing violently to the ground. The airscrew blades revolving like a windmill must have gigantic proportions which will militate against achievement in other directions...
...impatience against tradition has reached such a height that not only the Seniors, but the Juniors and Sophomores have discarded regular clothes and are strolling about the campus in "beer suits" which are best described as pajamas made of canvas. And at Cambridge even John Harvard has shifted ground. The hostility toward study and the golden key is, therefore, probably not the only explanation for Yale's athletic prowess...