Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sale for such a magazine is, of course, limited; Isis is in danger of having to discontinue. The aim is to make it the official journal of the new society and send it free to members on payment of $5 dues. The proposed organization will provide a meeting-ground for scientists, historians, philosophers, writers, representatives of special groups like archeologists and medical men who have been writing independently. Dr. David E. Smith, professor of mathematics at Teachers' College, Columbia University, is in charge of the preliminary organization...
...undergraduate mind. Instructors come, lecture for their allotted space, and then, so far as most of their students are concerned, completely disappear into the limbo of lost things and forgotten personalities, leaving little behind them but battalions of dead blue books and seeds of thought cast on barren ground...
Dwight Barnam. R. Bennink, and Paul Sullivan are among the most capable of the prospective candidates and E. S. Stimpson, who is one of the best young golfers in the neighborhood of Boston, is arranging the schedule now and acting as manager until weather and ground conditions permit the beginning of practice...
...soon as the weather and ground conditions at the local and country clubs are favorable, practice will begin for candidates for the University golf team, according to an announcement made last night. The schedule has been completed except for a few matches and playing privileges at some club are being secured. The team will not practice at Belmonth, as in previous years, and it is hoped that arrangements will soon be completed elsewhere...
Citlaltepetl (Mountain of the Star), a volcano 18,000 feet high and situated near Orizaba in the State of Vera Cruz, belched forth showers of sulphur, filling the air and covering the ground for miles around. Snow completely disappeared from the summit, its place being taken by a cloud of sulphurous gas. "The nearby dwellers feared an eruption...