Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Certain of the Fundamentalists, armed with the Gospel armor, have already entrenched themselves behind the left-hand column printed above. Between the left and righthand, they say there is no middle ground, no compromise...
...whom he expresses his opinions, no politician can meet him with a prepared attack. He has at once shown Congress a courtesy and disarmed its critical members. He has likewise gained an immense tactical advantage in approaching such controversial questions as the World Court. He will choose the ground where the necessary political battles will be waged, but the enemy does not know in advance on what fields he will give battle. His batteries will not be unmasked until the foe stands face to face with...
...unconsoled but not wholly broken to the ground, he set about beginning the only task that remained for him? the designing of a monument for George's grave...
...more subtle than their American opponents, "using the University men's arguments to their own advantage time and again and bringing the house down again and again with laughter at their brilliant jibes." The Harvard speakers, though less eloquent, displayed excellent logic and reasoning powers, and covered their ground more thoroughly than the Englishmen...
...seem remarkable that his address last Thursday fails to strike the powerful note of his former speech. Last September the educational world was seeking a just principle of selective discrimination in handling the entrance problem and President Hopkins was the first to express an idea which has gained great ground and of which we have not heard the last...