Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brighton, Fla., Mr. Hoover lunched with Glenn H. Curtiss, aviation pioneer. He remarked to his host that Col. Lindbergh should fly no more, lest he be killed by the law of aviation averages. The Pan-American Airways, Inc., Mr. Hoover suggested, should give him a good safe ground job. Mr. Curtiss, a-twinkle, replied that the situation would probably be met, in view of press reports that Mr. Hoover was going to appoint Col. Lindbergh to his sub-cabinet in charge of civil aeronautics. Mr. Hoover promptly changed the subject of conversation...
...great political party, by persons who would claim the title of responsible politicians. Those in Great Britain who sympathize most warmly with the idea of India attaining at the earliest possible moment the status of any of the other great dominions of the Crown will find the ground cut from under their feet if British opinion ever becomes convinced that so-called dominion status was valued by India only as a stepping-stone to a complete severance of her connection with the British Commonwealth...
...Second is the matter of one government's claims against another. This has been since time immemorial a fertile ground for strife. A foreigner, for example, is lynched by a mob in America. What is his government to do? Make objections through diplomatic channels, of course, and seek redress in the customary manner. But what if our officials politely but firmly fall to be blamed, or that any compensation is necessary? Then the consequences are not always happy! Were there a recognized universal law which could be applied, much time could be saved and dangerous complications averted...
...general opinion among football coaches, it was said, was entirely favorable to the committee's decision. "The new rule," it was explained in a statement issued by the secretary, "will not apply in case of forward passing nor to backward passes which are intercepted before striking the ground, nor will it apply to blocked kicks, which will be played as heretofore...
Even though the admitted purpose of the organization is the sponsoring of such work as would fail to find ready acceptance in such quarters as the Fogg Museum, it is well that the point of departure be not too far removed from familiar ground. New standards of taste must at least find the bricks and mortar of their construction in the standards of the past, for even the most open minded critics find difficulty in properly appraising a work which has only a nominal relationship to the familiar...