Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second ground for criticism is that Mr. Justice Sutherland appears to have argued in syllogisms, and to have expressed himself in a way which is not calculated to convince those in whose interest the law was passed that he had in mind what questions were involved. The opinion suggests too strongly that in the famous case of Lochner against New York, decided in 1905, in which the Court held that a law prohibiting more than a 60-hour week in a bakery was unconstitutional...
...Albert Lorenz, Jr., 38, son of Dr. Adolf Lorenz, the Austro-Newark surgeon, to Margaret de Ferraris, daughter of Arthur de Ferraris, celebrated portrait painter. Last Christmas Dr. Lorenz was refused a license to marry Baroness Stancovic of Austria shortly after her arrival in New York on the ground that she had no right to remarry...
...dedication of the Tempelhofer Field-once the parade ground of the ex-Kaiser's famous guard regiments -as Berlin's airport, members of the municipal government went up in eleven airplanes. The eleventh machine crashed on landing, killing two city fathers and injuring a third official and the pilot. This was an unfortunate though dramatic finale to a celebration intended to advertise the Tempelhofer as the biggest airport in Europe. Almost on the same day at Cracow, Poland, a military plane lost a wing and fell through the roof of an apartment house. The gasoline tank exploded, killing...
...Etampes, France, an airplane directed by wireless from the ground flew easily, maneuvered freely and rose and landed several times. A Sperry stabilizer with four gyroscopes maintains equilibrium automatically and a special device cuts off ignition on landing. Captain Boucher, the inventor, predicts that such machines may well be used for bombing purposes in times...
...small circulation, are an issue in Los Angeles politics. They were ousted from the libraries of the Los Angeles public schools during the war -The Nation for being "pacifist" and The New Republic for being " radical"-and now there is a strong movement to have them reinstated on the ground that they contain data essential in the study of public affairs. Candidates for election to the School Board, which will be held in the near future, are being asked to define their attitude toward the forbidden periodicals. Neither The New Republic nor The Nation is radical in the proper sense...