Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bestowing this degree on Mr. Hughes, Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown said: "In your youthful spirit and the direct sincerity of your diplomacy you are another Lindbergh with feet on the ground." *Not to be confused with that other Oklahoma oilman, E. W. Marland, who put up the money for a huge statue of The Pioneer Woman (TIME...
Princeton, N. J. June 15--The Triangle Club of Princeton, the college dramatic society which dates its origin from back in the colonial period, will have a new home of its own in which to give its next year's offerings. Ground will be broken tomorrow for a new building donated to the Club by T. N. McCarter '88, at a cast...
Despite the fact that a cut and dried proceedure perversely realized all the confident predictions of its outcome, despite the fact that all its planks were ground up to make sawdust with which to stuff empty promises, despite the fact that all the favorite sons rejected favoritism and agreed with the Saturday Evening Post, the results of the Republican Convention produced as formidable a mixture as the Republican voters themselves could have hoped to have chosen. Selecting a candidate for the most "important position in the world" as the croaking orators repeatedly informed them, the delegates were sheep-like...
...lungs, enter the cells. The crowded cells clump together. In an effort to protect the body, fibres begin to grow around the "clumps." Gradually the lungs choke up with the tough fibrous growth, the chest becomes rigid, cannot expand; breathing becomes difficult; tubercle baccilli find a rich, fertile breeding ground; the rock driller dies of silicosis, tuberculosis, or both...
...Pops, ground with the typical fanfare and critical phraseology, have the season continued along the straight path upon which Mr. Casella has guided them so sturdily during his short period of directorship. In the last analysis, of course, the Pops must remain popular concerts, and in the present state of musical appreciation, this means the playing night after night throughout the season of those excerpts from important music that have the widest appeal. But that even here there are possibilities beyond the March Slave and The Flight of the Bumblebee has been realized by the conductor...