Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...find their way by moon and stars across the trailless land. Commanding officers slaved at newfangled exercises, learning to use radio and motorcycle communication, use also the squadron of reconnaissance tanks which will be part of each new cavalry division. On the chill, white expanse of the drill ground or in the dank corrals, recruits learned the manual of arms, the ways of horses, impressed their officers with their "remarkable intensity and enthusiasm." Machine-gunners and artillerymen practiced firing at wheeled targets, cavorting down a winding, miniature railway...
These people, to give but one example, have the possibility of pocketing up to 160 percent dividends from the ammunition industry. They say that if these German methods gain ground and prove victorious all this will stop. They are right. I believe six per cent sufficient...
...blow of the attack was driven home by the R. A. F. under command of Air Commodore Raymond Collishaw, who got the second highest bag of any British flier in World War I (60 planes) and about the most decorations. Everything the R. A. F. could get off the ground went out-from slick new Hurricanes recently brought East, to heavy old Glosters. vibrating like aerial pianos. Just as the Germans did on May 10 in the Low Countries, the R. A. F. and the Fleet Air Arm blinded the enemy. British squadrons bombed airfields from Sidi Barrani right...
Last week the vast, dead peaceful world of the past faced the horrors of a historigraphical schism. With his Washington and the Revolution, Historian Bernhard Knollenberg knocked the Father of his Country off the pedestal, and mumbling expressions of polite admiration, began to pound his head on the ground...
...sweeping assumptions and jargon, which the student will find indispensable ballast as he goes on in economics. The non-concentrators, however--and by requirement of the Division they are numerous in the course--are left with their tools in mid-air, without the slightest hope of ever touching the ground of reality. To carry out its dual function with justice to all, Ec A could profitably use more case material, and risk an occasional reference to government, unemployment, communism, and even Ft. Knox...