Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I want to correct what seems to me the wrong impression, conveyed in your article "Airports" on p. 44 of TIME, April 29: "But the English air lines provide comfortable automobiles between airport and metropolis...
This new development which was started at Marquis de Lafayette Junior High School is not only of value as educational training and vocational guidance, but we believe it is one of the best ways of making United States properly air-minded...
...Western Air Express, having terminals in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City. and soon to establish a line Eastward to Kansas City, provide comfortable limousines for their passengers between the airports and the down town business districts. We also, incidentally, provide a luncheon for the passengers on the plane, all of which is without extra charge. I hope some day you will have the opportunity of riding on the "Model Airline of the World," operated by Western Air Express between San Francisco and Los Angeles...
...failure of the authorities to comply with the insistent demands of interested undergraduates, and if there are, no shame should attach to giving them public notice. Concealment, rightly or wrongly, always gives the impression that there is something questionable or arbitrary about the concealed. If only to clear the air of a somewhat sultry haze if not as a courtesy to the men affected, the committees responsible would be wise to give out a clear and concise statement of their position...
Among the archaisms that grow green each year in the kindly air of Harvard none is more strange than that curious one--the Commencement part. The custom of having a few of the leaders in the graduating class address the Commencement gathering on almost any subject, from What is Wrong with the World to May Four Years in College, is an ancient one, and used to bring out enthusiastic competition for the honor. But for the past few years there has been a reluctance of Seniors to say any more in the Commencement ceremonies than is necessary, and the invitations...