Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your magazine is just what I've been seeking. I read many publications that purport to serve a similar need, but in each case I have been dis- appointed. Rehashes and incoherent excerpts are not only bewildering but maddening. Your magazine covers the ground in a style that is both provocative and individual. I wish to goodness I had been a subscriber from the first issue...
Your TIME and FORTUNE should prove great levelers in aiding the people to keep their feet on the ground during the readjustment period...
Next evening the Mob marched to Eastland jail. They dragged Murderer Ratliff from his bunk, stripped him of his clothes, paraded him 200 yards through the main streets to a telegraph pole. A rope jerked Ratliff off the ground, broke, let him down with a thump. Under the code of the Old West, when a lynching rope broke, the victim was freed. Eastland that night did not follow the Old West's code. Fifteen terrible minutes passed before a new grass rope was produced. Up went Ratliff a second time...
...rest of the new building. When the general sentiment about the new tower is so well defined, it would be a pity to have it built along its present lines without some consideration of a possible change. Certainly with the house hardly more than four feet above the ground there is ample time left for revision...
...this basis, men still do not want to eat often enough in the halls to make them self supporting on a per meal basis, the whole idea of University dining halls should be done away with, unless the University is willing to continue the practice of subsidy on the ground that House Dining Halls are a good thing. In any case the subsidy should not come from those who do not think University dining Halls are a good thing as is the case with the twenty-five percent of absentees at the Freshman dormitories or the hypothetical group of House...