Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...series of mysterious ground movements accompanied the slight storm of Saturday night and the heavier one of Sunday night, it was learned yesterday at the University seismographic station...
These movements, called microseisms, or small tremblings, constitute one of the most puzzling types of ground movements which are now being investigated by seismologists...
...down to us and we who are their descendants have not made use of our inheritance. The wars of the Occident are all for the possession of just those minerals which we have in such abundance but which, for lack of communications and development, we leave buried in the ground...
...rain in 1916 and 1917. Unlike those recent films of battle in which the courage and good-nature of the protagonists made war seem a rather admirable, phenomenal cradle of heroes, The Somme is full of death and terror, last cigarets puffed on the ground, bodies, the conquered and the conquering, piled indifferently together. Best shot: a lonely piper, making death musical for a Canadian regiment...
...gave his inaugural address last week a utilitarian tone: "This institution is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. Like an industrial agent, it is evaluated in terms of its yield. It deserves and can rightfully claim the .united support of thoughtful citizens on the ground of its educational service. . . . Build the University into the life of the state." That was a parody of Cornell's byword, where President Turner once taught: "Build yourself into Cornell...