Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...graduated from schools with an approved curriculum in the first seventh of their classes should be continued for at least another year before judgment can be passed on its success or failure. In selecting the remainder of the 900 the Crimson favors a system of elimination--elimination from the ground up on the basis of scholarship...
...question remains how, if three parties are to remain, is the nation to be guarded against too frequent dissolutions? I should on no ground leave to the monarch the invidious and dangerous task of being the guardian. . . . Looking ahead, however, one of two things may have to be done. The present maximum life of the House of Commons is five years. Shall we be driven to fix a minimum? If we were it ought not to be more than three years. As an alternative, could the House of Commons be made to decide its own dissolution within the maximum period...
...have many. But his fault-finding is not discouragement. He lets us look at the future, perhaps a little too glorious, but yet a future towards which we are surely advancing. We shall learn by our mistakes, and grow, till we become "the refuge, clearing-house, testing ground for the theatre of the world...
...five minutes both cows were reported "clean." The victory was awarded to Secretary Wallace because he had drawn a pint more of milk. Senator Johnson, the challenger, protested the decision on the ground that Cora Johanna Frenesta Dekol, his cow, had been milked too recently. The quantities of milk were not given...
...either regarded the Hippodrome with juvenile ecstasy or profound distaste. There was no middle ground. It was the shrine of amusement which housed the private gods of Youth. Once boarding school began-and with it excursions, possibly furtive, to the Follies-these gods mourned another apostate...