Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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University education, if it is to be more than a training ground for skilled workers, can not afford to dedicate itself to the professions at the expense of the arts and pure sciences. One of the main-stays of man's cultural existence, the ground on which the professions are built, the liberal education will give way to the competitive demands for specialized training only with a serious loss to everyone concerned...
...official weather forecast indicates that fair weather will at last allow the Crimson baseball forces to open their home season after three enforced postponements. A few hours of sunshine, according to Dennis Enright, ground-keeper of Soldiers Field, will put the diamond in shape for this afternoon's contest between Harvard and Bates, which is scheduled to start at 4 o'clock...
...Honorable gentlemen opposite have been pretty cunning, very crafty in some of their methods of dealing with situations. . . . They have talked about a red-blooded attitude on the part of Canada They have chosen their ground well, because, if there is one thing above another that the honorable gentlemen are good at, it is jingoist pronouncements, more particularly when they relate to the United States. But may I say to my honorable friends opposite it is not a red-blooded attitude that is needed at the present moment so much as a cool-headed attitude, and a cool-headed attitude...
...tides contain huge power; hence a project is under way for dams and spillways where Maine and New Brunswick meet at Passamaquoddy Bay. The sun pours billions of heat units upon the earth; hence an experimental sun engine at Mount Wilson Observatory. Volcanic regions are hot just below the ground surface; hence on the west U. S. Coast and in Italy pipes are driven down, water poured into them, useful steam taken out. The surface of tropical waters is, much warmer than the depths; hence the work of Georges Claude, member of the French Academy of Sciences at Havana...
Getting heavy planes off the ground requires more power than flying them straightaway. Hence, attempts to shove them upward from inclined planes; hence, the device of the German Dr. Hugo Junkers, which last week's despatches reported successful. He places the plane which is to fly, on the wings of a large three-motored auxiliary plane. The auxiliary leaves the ground with its load, when good flying height is attained, the top ship takes off from the auxiliary, which returns to its field. Last week the U. S. gave Dr. Junkers letters patent for his idea...