Word: groundedness
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"The present prosperity of the country is soundly grounded," despite some inflation and a high rate of spending, Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, declared yesterday.
In ordinary science, the explorer walks along with his eyes on his feet and measures every step. The speculator, however, "lifts his eyes off the ground" and gives his imagination free play, grounded in scientific fact, to concoct the possibilities of the future.
His news: Clouds grounded the newsmen in Elkins, W. Va., buses bounced them over back roads to Pennsylvania, hotel rooms were reserved and unreserved in Pittsburgh, and eventually, when they caught up with Candidate Stevenson in New York, the rally for him in Harlem was over. In short, wrote Reporter...
In addition to classroom politics, Herman was fond of history, biography and a study of the U.S. Constitution. Other pleasures: Greek and Roman classics, Gibbon's Decline and Fall. He stayed late only if the class was debating. Other days he went home to his chores. One afternoon in...
The next day the Air Force, for the second time in less than eight months, grounded all its $8,000,000, 600-m.p.h. B-52s, said they would stay that way until investigators had determined the cause of the crash. Preliminary evidence indicated an electrical-system failure, which was also...