Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Laborites. The Labor Party is in a curious position. They are against protection, but so are the Liberals, and for that matter some of the Conservatives. In these circumstances the ground has been cut from under their feet. They must therefore fall back upon their capital levy plank, which again is certain to prove less attractive to the proletariat electorate than Mr. Lloyd George's unemployment insurance coupled with his anti-protectionist stand. Nevertheless predictions were made that the Liberal Party would consolidate its influence in the country at the elections. It would seem, however, considering the fact that...
...poor boy. He had no education. He learned a trade and made a fortune out of it. He has no children. Now he would like to give an opportunity to as many boys as possible to make fortunes for themselves. Girls he does not provide for, on the ground that they can always get married or do housework, and so find homes. "Girls don't need help like boys," said he, " so I decided on boys." Boys will be accepted who are poor, without fathers, white, native-born, healthy and between the ages of four and eight...
...will find ample evidence to support such a view in this first description. Wrestling and tripping were permitted. It being recorded that "careful Terrence . . . . Ran to the Swain and caught his Arm behind; A dextrous Crook about his Leg he wound, And laid the Champion grov'ling on the Ground". As Mr. Williams who reviewed the poem for the London Outlook aptly said, Terrence "would probably be ordered off the field in these degenerate days". Yet these men of Soards and Lusk would probably have fied amazed had a modern gridiron hero stepped on the field with his huge padded...
That Coach Stevens believes in building from the ground up, with plenty of attention to the depth of the foundation, has been amply demonstrated by his policy with the University crew this fall. No formal races have been in order, and the men have seldom been allowed to get above 32 or 33 to the minute...
...There are no large fan downers in the Philippines. The farms are small in size and nearly every man owns his plot of ground. The uncultivated area always gives the non-landowner the opportunity to become a squatter, and thus some day to own his won property. As a result of this condition, there are practically no poor in the agricultural districts of the islands. "We, indeed, have our rich, but they do not exist to the extent that they create the poor...