Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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History shows that movements for ameliorating the state of society have generally drawn their inspiration and first impetus from Youth. And by the same token these movements, on account of the impatience and lack of wisdom of their prime movers, have more often than not fallen on stony ground and come to naught. According to Mr. Rothschild's article in the present issue the Youth of Europe are now prosecuting with vigor such a movement toward renovation of their economic states. Apparently the movement has thus far no coherence beyond a kind of common program which is made up more...
...Aurora, 111., obtained from the Grand Central Galleries, Manhattan, a carload of 215 paintings and bronzes, and exhibited them for nine days at the Central States Exposition in Aurora. From other cities came other pictures and bronzes -enough to fill ten galleries in the art buildings of the Fair Ground. Manager Erwin S. Barrie of the Grand Central Galleries accompanied his shipment to Aurora. When he had sold 20 paintings and sculptures he declared the fair " an artistic camp meeting." Said he: " Aurora buys more paintings per capita than any other city in the U. S. . . . The people of Aurora...
...Iowa State Fair, Des Moines. By means of a hydraulic wagon, or dynamometer, recently invented, the "tractive pull" of horse teams was determined with scientific accuracy for the first time. This is the kind of energy required to pull a varying weight out of a hole in the ground. The winning pair exerted a maximum tractive pull of 2,300 pounds. Such a team would pull 10 loaded coal wagons on pavement. On different types of roads varying loads could be pulled, grading from concrete through brick and asphalt to dirt. The two horses weighed...
Advocacy of American participation in the World Court was entrusted to George W. Wickersham, Attorney General under President Taft. Despite some slight objection on the ground that it was a political question, Mr. Wickersham succeeded in carrying a motion endorsing the World Court. The motion implied that most Americans favored it. Lord Birkenhead made no reference to politics, except to intimate that in England the prestige of royalty was increasing and that of the Socialist party was diminishing...
...pivot of her mother's consciousness, driven a trifle off center by the disasters in the family, revolves about her daughter. Overpowering possessive selfishness sets her to keep Jane to herself. She forbids the match. When Jane stands her ground the mother bursts into a blind fury and pours into Jane's sensitive, overwrought brain the poison tale of her inheritance among the children of the still, white satellite. The girl's mind falters under the shock, and as the final curtain falls the audience hears the purr of airplane high in the foggy night in which...