Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been numerous at Dartmouth this season, the Green will only have one regular not fit for today's game. Captain Burke is still slated as unable to start the contest, but present indications seem to show that he will be used if a crucial moment arrives when his powerful ground-gaining ability is needed in the backfield...
...backfield with quarterback Mills will be Harris Siegfried, and Leavitt. The former two are experienced broken field runners while the latter, weighing 175 pounds, has gained considerable ground on line plunges for the Green team this season...
...geographical characteristics of which the successful general takes advantage in conducting his campaign. If the Alps are in his way, the modern tactician usually does not attempt to scale them with his A's and B's and other white elephants, but maps out his course over a smoother ground. He sees ahead of him the threatening cloud of examinations, he is appalled by its menacing aspect, and he seeks protection along the more sheltered road of Geology or Astronomy. Even after making his start on the Appian Way of the Classics, be turns aside from the general examination...
...resisiance. In answer comes the statement that those who have not the courage to continue along their chosen path, in spite of obstacles, are not the sort who would benefit by a liberal education. If this is true, why should the fields of science be converted into the stamping-ground of the University...
...Perhaps", he continued, "he was entitled to speak of him especially because he had been continuously associated with him in the arduous and most successful work he had undertaken in preparing the ground for the committee, and he was able to testify at first hand and at short range how much the committee owed to him. Perhaps he might be permitted to recall the fact that when he first came to Washington, 25 years before, seated in the same chair of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, was another Theodore Roosevelt, then comparatively unknown, who displayed the same zeal, enthusiasm...