Word: groundedness
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"In foreign affairs I do not propose to be a talkative President. But I do propose to appoint as Secretary of State a competent man grounded in sound American principles."
Two years ago, on Stravinsky's last U. S. visit, a customs officer looked suspiciously over a bundle of his scores, asked in what language they were written (TIME. Jan. 14. 1935). Many U. S. concertgoers are just as confused when they hear Stravinsky's music. Others regard...
At a Long Island party two nights later, Baroness Eva was tipped off that he was about to take off alone. Bundling into flying togs, she dashed at dawn to Floyd Bennett Field where Pilot Bjorkvall at first would not speak to her. Eventually she cornered him in a hangar...
Decade ago a strapping young German Catholic priest, who had entered the order of Oblates of Mary Immaculate after serving as a War pilot, found himself stationed for home missionary work near Berlin's Tempelhof airport. To obtain a civilian pilot's license tall, blond Rev. Paul Schulte...
Last May, as his share in the projected British Empire Exhibition at Johannesburg, South Africa's Rockefeller offered $50,000 in prizes for a London-Johannesburg air race. Last week, as the Johannesburg Exhibition entered its third week, nine planes buzzed away from London after the prize money. Because...