Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Very quietly, very significantly a group of men representing 5,000,000 employes and another group representing £1,000,000,000 in invested capital met together at London last week for the first time. They met on strictly neutral ground, in a lofty pillared room at Burlington House, a room hitherto sacred to the high-minded proceedings of The Royal Society (scientific). There, seated around four baize-covered tables, they founded with high hopes the Conference of Industrial Cooperation...
...lapses into the more familiar denotation, it is easy to sce how this new usage follows in the tradition of moving pictures and illustrated papers, in lifting from the people the burden of thought. The comma brings the reader to a sharp pause, and a consideration of the ground covered, but these other tracks flow gently on through vague words of pleasant connotation, rather impressively indeed. And unprovoked to thought, the reader can wander after them through a haze of prettily blurred pictures. This is no solemn warning however, for the method is used only in the attempt...
...films prepared for university and college use will cover much the same ground as those designed for secondary schools, but the titling will be more technical and the subjects will be developed in greater detail
Lieut. Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, lord of the Los Angeles, answered: "Auxiliaries." He pointed out that huge hangars; great ground crews; and extraordinarily expensive terminal equipment are requisite for dirigibles. In the U. S. there are only two hangars; Lakehurst and Scott Field, Belleville, Ill. Dirigibles cannot, like ariplanes, be landed on any flat run of ground and wheeled into a convenient shed. They must have home life...
Safety. Hurricanes, electric storms, sudden ground squalls are their enemies. Commander Rosendahl, survivor the Shenandoah smash (TIME, Sept. 14, 1925) believes that the Los Angeles, once in the air, can survive far heavier storms than he permits her to rush. Perhaps, when dirigibles are enlarged, perfected, they will swim the heaviest storms that winds can blow. Helium gas, which fills the bag, will not burn, cannot explode...