Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report of the Committee on Syndicated and Signed Articles was rejected on the ground that its recommendations were impractical. The opinion of the Convention, however, held that special articles appearing in member papers could be used by other members of the Association after telegraphing for permission...
During the first hour of flight their battery regulator gave trouble and only the hardest work enabled them to make it function. The excessive gasoline load carried forced them to fly dangerously low, 400 feet above the ground during the earlier stages of their trip...
...Overseers and to report such changes and improvements as will tend to give Overseers a more truly representative character". Eight members of the committee, in addition to the chairman, approved the report; from ten more to whom the report was submitted no replies were received. Two members the ground that they consider the present method satisfactory, and a third adds his name with the reservation that he believes the present method of nominating Overseers by committee and by petition "has always given the voting body ample opportunity to make excellent suggestions", but that he sees no harm in "investigating...
...enough of college to become sceptical or for that man whose beliefs need an airing, Silver Bay will prove an excellent training ground...
...schools. And England, of course, wants British stock to be on a par with American in China. The Manchester Guardian has suggested that the money be devoted to establishing schools in China taught by Chinese teachers, rather than to transplanting batches of Chinese students to English universities, on the ground that such transplanted Chinamen become denationalized...