Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more upheld after being tested in the fire of the footlights. On the whole, Author Shipman puts in several good words for marriage. His development is badly warped toward the end, at times stopping short of good burlesque. His dialogue is strained; his labored paradoxes seem to have been ground out by someone just learning English. But an exceptional cast endows the play...
...brain is directly proportioned to its ability to use its hands for handling objects, rather than for locomotion. The gorilla has retrograded in some respects. Once it was an arboreal ape, and walked nearly erect. But its increasing weight (300 pounds) drove it from the trees to the ground to seek fodder on the surface; its hind legs were not able to support its body alone, so now it uses its arms as crutches, more like a quadruped...
...rise to congratulate the Crime and the Class of 1924 on their joint achievement of complete normaley after all these years? It is a great comfort to feel that at last we are back on sure and familiar ground, wrangling and shouting over the good old stock subjects--socialism and pacifism. Now the advanced thinkers of the class are deminding that the floor of the Union be made wide open to all comers and no holds barred. Well, why not? All the other fields have been exhausted to the point that even the Debating Union cannot survive on the stubble...
...huge Baldwin Locomotive Works from Philadelphia to Eddystone is well under way. The historic locomotive company has grown up with modern Philadelphia, and now occupies over 11½ city blocks. One block will probably be retained and improved as a main office and public auditorium. The rest of the ground sites will be sold as soon as the present factories are removed...
...latest work, The Chrysalis, depicting a young man emerging from the form of a gorilla, was refused admission to the current exhibition of the National Academy on the ground of lack of artistic merit (TIME...