Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pact in Paris, Mrs. Kellogg bought "Bodger" in Ireland, as a present for the Secretary's brother in St. Paul-but the Kelloggs like "Bodger" so well that they still occasionally borrow him. A white butler (odd in Washington) will serve tea in the library, on the ground floor, or dinner in the second floor dining room. There is one maid and a cook. The furnace man was born black. Always the master dines frugally and sips sparingly, but he is no total teetotaler. Purring from the garage comes either Mr. Kellogg's own Pierce Arrow...
That there should be quizzical and suspicious glances cast in the direction of abnormal psychology is not to be wondered at. An American university is a coolbed of conservatism. It is not the breeding-ground for cultural and political revolutions as it is in Europe. Our professors are by nature prudent, our students docile. This pleases American parents who, when they entrust their progeny to others demand intellectual safety first and last. At Harvard the last symptom of vigorous eruptive life ceased with the death of the Medfacs. In such an atmosphere any new venture must steel itself to criticism...
Preserved Sloth. Perhaps 1,000,000 years ago, certainly 500,000, a dumpy, pale yellow ground sloth, 8 feet long from its small head to its thick tail, lumbered terrorized near what is now El Paso, Texas. Some predatory beast was chasing it, perhaps a sabre-toothed tiger. The sloth was a plant-eating animal with soft teeth and did not know how to fight. So it could only lope towards a hole it knew. It reached the hole, scrambled over the ledge, fell 100 feet to the bottom. Bats who mat> the place their perch fluttered and squeaked fearfully...
...their feet on the earth and feel that they're here because they're here the theories of Professor Stetson relative to the effect of the rising and the setting of the moon upon the latitude of a place may come as disturbing news. They may feel the solid ground fall beneath their feet, and when they think they're Fifty North and Forty West they may be in quite another locality...
...walk in the Fenway, in Jamaica., or to the pond near Belmont, he is always aware that the city is about him. Only a little part of Cambridge now remains unspoilt. I recall looking out of my window at Winthrop Hall one midwinter morning to find the ground under a foot or two of snow, the trees grey with frost, no pathway or roadway swept, and one small gas street-lamp the only reminder of town life. It was a momentary vision of the vanished village of Cambridge: a moment affording a rare memory these days. To escape...