Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...California, campaigning near Mount Clemens, approached a railroad crossing in an automobile, with associates. A train approached, the safety gates sank across the way. The driver of the automobile applied the brakes, the car skidded, smashed through the gates. The engineer put on the air brake. As the train ground to a stop the car slid to within a few feet of the engine...
...Puttkammer, was arrested in Vienna. She was accused of having put arsenic in her husband's coffee. Dr. Adolph Gessmann, President of the Vienna Credit Bank, found that his new bride, descendant of the Iron Chancellor, was a manhater. She left him shortly after her marriage, on the ground that she did not like men. Persuaded to return, she poisoned Dr. Gessmann the first evening after their reunion...
...which has found expression in the program published by twenty-six alumni in the Amherst Student. There is nothing remarkable, however, in either the ideas or their phrasing. The definition that "a liberal college must be one in which the intellectual aim is dominant" and one which will thoroughly ground the student in the essentials of "an intelligent scheme of values" has often been used to express the ideals of every American college. It is more significant that these alumni who are all teachers and educators should think it necessary to restate accepted principles...
...question of the change in chapel hour, which has been considerably agitated lately, was discussed in two of the cabinet members' reports. Whereas J. D. Jameson '24, chairman of the Chapel Committee opposed any change on the ground that it would not increase the attendance, B. McK. Henry '24, president of the Phillips Brooks House Association, advocated the 7 o'clock hour. A change, he held, at least would do no harm and might very likely prove beneficial...
...field of finance, but humbly refused the honor in a letter which, his newspapers said, should be a historic model for all letters refusing knighthoods. Later on he refused a baronetcy in the same simple and sincere way. But at length he accepted a barony, excusing himself on the ground that he was getting too old for letter-writing." There is another, about a Lord who was "wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice; he was, in fact, so wealthy that Mr. Otto Kahn stood at attention when speaking to him and Mr. John D. Rockefeller burnt his tongue with...