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...Retrospect. Lord Irwin succeeds as Viceroy the former Lord Chief Justice of England, Rufus Daniel Isaacs, first Earl of Reading, son of the late Joseph Isaacs, a merchant in the city of London. Lord Reading is perhaps the classic example cited to prove that ability and application suffice to catapult the merest of commoners to the heights in this 20th Century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: New Viceroy | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

Countered, last week, one Charles M. Manly, pilot of the plane in Langley's experiments: "Launch the Langley machine from its original catapult and let it write its own label. . . . Test it in its original condition of 1903 and invite the world to hear it speak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Wright vs. Manly | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

...lost one of its most devoted exponents and the Navy a capable officer, often termed the father of Naval aviation. Captain Mustin was largely responsible for the establishment of the Bureau of Aeronautics and the shaping of the Navy's air policy in recent years. Inventor of the catapult idea of launching airplanes from shipboard, he was also the first pilot to be launched in this manner. As first Commander of the Aircraft Squadrons of the Fleet, he perfected means of spotting gunfire by airplane. Together with Admiral Bradley Fiske, he perfected the telescopic gunsight now used throughout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Mustin Dies | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

...Ford fortune is perhaps the cleanest ever made. That fact gives a titanic leverage to his anti-capitalist catapult. "If there are any who would like to see Mr. Ford lose out, they are not in the ranks of Labor." As a plain matter of fact that cannot be said, for example, of Labor's attitude toward Judge Gary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who IS Henry Ford? | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

...give them balls that they cannot knock into "kingdom come." It is shame to tease them by sending in curved spheres. In future, pitchers will deliver them straight at the bat so that nothing may baffle the aim of the batsman, who can thus convert his ash into a catapult, by whose means he may kill the pitcher, or anybody else on the field at will, to prove how much of an athlete he has become since he joined college. [Clipper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIVE THE BATSMAN A CHANCE. | 1/24/1884 | See Source »

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