Word: amphibian
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...connection with some comments on Mr. Bernard Macfadden, world-renowned Physical Culturist and quack-exposer, published in a recent issue of TIME, you refer to the public as a "hydra-headed Amphibian" and as "that Beast." Will you allow me to observe th?t the use of such terms is in extremely bad taste and that the author of them deserves severe criticism...
Millionaire Bernarr Macfadden, publisher of twelve magazines? and of the New York Evening Graphic, gum-chewers' supreme-de-fruit, watches as a zoo-man watches his charges that hydra-headed amphibian, the Public. He knows the meat upon which this beast and upon which he, Macfadden, may grow great together. Hence, when he saw people everywhere, in lowly hovels, in the great homes which he himself frequents, racking their brains over small squares of paper charted in black and white squares which gaped to be filled in, horizontally and vertically, with words of Egyptian, European and native derivation...
Another unique feature of the design is the tractor propeller. Hitherto, flying boats have been built with the engine mounted behind the pilot and passengers, with the propeller pushing-convenient in docking but offering always the possibility of the engine landing right on top of the personnel. The amphibian with its engine in front avoids this danger. The engine is inverted to improve the pilot's vision and works apparently even better in this position. This expedient, simple as it may appear, has a great military value. In spite of its novel characteristics and multiple function, the new plane...
After more than a year's secret development, the Loening Amphibian made its first public appearance when it left the water of the East River at 31st street, Manhattan, as a flying boat, and alighted some two hours later on solid ground at Bolling Field, Washington, D. C. The Amphibian is the first of ten machines to be delivered to the Army for use in the Philippines, where water or land duty may fall indiscriminately to Air Service officers. Its versatility is obtained in very simple fashion. The fuselage or body is shaped just like the hull...
...horse-cart to the express train, and predicting that the Express company will give unlimited business to the first responsible air transport company; Grover C. Loening, Manhattan society man, young, sparkling, decidedly of the "beaumonde" yet one of the ablest aeronautical engineers in the country who pictured the amphibian flying over land and alighting on rivers in the very heart of cities; dignified...