Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...built his own pipe-line to the Great Lakes. In 1917 he formed the Sinclair Gulf Corp. with his own fleet of ships. While larger companies were getting War contracts, he, an alert independent, developed a Latin-American trade. In 1919 he let his friends in on various "ground floors" of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp., a towering organization of world-wide schemes...
...Lowry ETS, Chairman. The usual dances with the Graduate School of Radcliffe were held, one in the fall and one in the spring. The average attendance at these dances was about 200. Providing a social occasion for graduate students, they have made possible a common meeting ground for the graduate students of Harvard and Radcliffe...
...country men, ignorant of city problems, is intolerable. Where city controls country, farmers are equally vexed. Most of the States, says Professor Merriam, are the anachronistic creatures of surveyors' chains. "The nation and the city are vigorous organs. . . . The truth is that the State is standing on slippery ground as a political unit...
...axiom that Jews are always plentiful as traders but scarce as tillers of the soil has been rudely upset by the Soviet regime in Russia. The State monopoly of trade has crowded out Jewish traders and forced them to scratch and sow the ground. During 1927 not less than 8,000 Russian retailers became farmers, according to Soviet statistics. Last week this process of readjustment, painful to Jews, seemed about to be smoothed by a philanthropic gift of $5,000,000 from famed Julius Rosenwald, chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. (mail orders...
Before incredulous experts, Capt. Geoffrey De Havilland took his Moth up over London, stalled his engine at a height of 200 feet, and deliberately crashed to the ground of Staglane Airdrome. The little plane crashed, crumbled; the experts gasped. But from the mess stepped Capt. De Havilland, smiling and nodding his head as if to say: "So you see, gentlemen, these Handley-Page automatic slots of which I have been telling you really do make an airplane fool-proof." The slots, attached to the wing tips, automatically open in case of accident, not unlike a parachute, and let an unhappy...