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Word: grounded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ground floor for Paine Hall will be reserved for members of the University, free of charge, and public admission to the gallery will be by tickets which may be purchased at the office of the Music Building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHITING DOMINATES NEXT CONCERT AT PAINE HALL | 12/11/1923 | See Source »

...shot of dope" is given to a plant either by inhalation or a hypodermic needle, exactly the,contrary of the effect of ether on human beings is produced. Instead of putting plants to sleep it can produce overnight perceptible fresh green shoots from rose bushes dug out of frozen ground in midwinter. Kept indoors on the ether diet, they grow and bloom weeks ahead of the usual flowering time. Still more miraculous, they are found to be immune to all the ordinary plant diseases that hamper indoor rose culture. A very small quantity of ether does the trick-about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Drugged to Life | 12/10/1923 | See Source »

...this holds true of the domestic policy--and the domestic policy is evidently the President's surest ground. The statement of our foreign policy is comparatively relegated to the background and treated in terms not so clear. For instance the World Court question is mixed up with the Hague Court, which has not had success enough to recommend it very highly; and it is recommended with "the proposed reservations," reservations never very clearly understood. As for the League of Nations, all the high-sounding phrases at the close regarding our responsibility in giving the world a more practical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A VOICE OF THE PEOPLE | 12/7/1923 | See Source »

...only political wisdom. There are a whole host of Presidential aspirants ready to seize upon any pretext in the message as an excuse for attacks on the Administration's policy and for advancing their respective candidacies. The less argumentative and the more general the message is, the less ground these gentlemen will have to stand on, and the more advantage will accrue to Mr. Coolidge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The State of the Union | 12/3/1923 | See Source »

...have been done by the trial Judge and securing by an appellate court a review of this very serious question on the merits, they sought by applying to a sin He Judge of only coordinate authority for a writ of habeas corpus to release the petition on the ground that the trial Judge was without jurisdiction to make the decision he did. This raised the sole issue whether the trial Judge had authority to decide the question, not whether he had rightly decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Contempt | 12/3/1923 | See Source »

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