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...difficult to decide which is grossest: the vapidity of the introductory apologia; the cant of the individual critiques; or (he high-handed inanity of the whole approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 16, 1939 | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Next April, with American Export flying a 15-ton Consolidated flying boat and the Italians a new Cant-Trieste seaplane, the two lines will start four months of survey flying along their joint line. Hoping for eventual Civil Aeronautics Authority sanction, the new partners are planning 60-to-70 passenger sleeper ships to be built in both countries from jointly drawn specifications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Weather Eyes | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...Spender, Day Lewis broke the ice of post-War English poetry, fellow Oxonian Rex Warner started skating on one of the smaller cakes. More of a country man than an Anglo-Communist, more of an Anglo-Communist than a poet, his best poems are honest descriptions, his worst, honest cant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Mar. 21, 1938 | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...Note:The Crimson did not intend any personal reflection in the editorial "Pals at the Polls"; it merely wondered about the validity of a Committee which as yet has done little more than cant and storm. Still in the same mood the Crimson wonders what success has been made with the petition which the Committee for Electoral Reform has so often mentioned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 3/9/1938 | See Source »

High. Last week a 3,700 h.p. Alfa-Romeo Cant Zappata, with Italian Pilots Stoppani & Di Mauro, carrying 4.400 Ib. of pay load, rose to 29,344 ft. (over 5½ mi.) above Trieste-a record for seaplanes and additional support for the assertion of National Aeronautic Association's president. Charles Horner. that Italy leads the U. S. in aviation "by a substantial margin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Records, Nov. 15, 1937 | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

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