Word: groundedness
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The old Oxford had always been a young Oxford, with plenty of time for parties, pranks, and a leisurely "education for the whole man." Now the average undergraduate is 26, with five or six years of Army life behind him. From Oxford he asks "something practical"-a good vocational training...
Before the Connie went into commercial service, said he, it had been put through 4,670 hours, or 1,401,000 miles, of test flying-without a single injury. The fire which got the Connie grounded last summer was no fault of the engine's induction system, as had...
The Office of Katharsis. Professor Levin argues that Joyce's "imaginative constructions are ... grounded on the rock of his buried religious experience." Strictly speaking, Joyce's religious experience was adolescent. He was barely out of his teens when he renounced Ireland and with it the Roman Catholic Church...
With the tutorial cutback apparently here to stay, undergraduate dependence on formal courses for a firmly grounded knowledge of a particular field of concentration has increased acutely. The added responsibility thus assumed by the Faculty necessarily forces an explanation of its powers to assume that responsibility as well as a...
For the first time in the air age a pilots' strike grounded a major U.S. airline. It involved 1,100 members of the exclusive Air Line Pilots Association (A.F.L.), forced Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. to cancel flights over 28,270 miles of foreign and domestic routes.