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...field. It was remodeled and enlarged just a year ago. Now it must be altered again at great cost. Airport ideas presented at Manhattan included underground passages to holes where planes would be waiting ready to start, great landing platforms over steamship piers, and a community arrangement around a circular field, its buildings rising in height as they recede from the centre. Next month at Cleveland, engineers will meet with architects, city planners, and flyers in an attempt to design best types of airports for various services. Lack of ports, like lack of trained flyers, is hampering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Airports | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

With the rapid changes which are constantly being made in the attempt to adjust the circular system to the divisional examinations and the distinction theses, it seems highly probable that the time is not far removed when Seniors who are candidates for distinction will be relieved of all regular work during the last half of the year, when the demands of divisional examinations are falling most heavily upon them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BIG AND THE LITTLE | 3/28/1929 | See Source »

Certainly much larger is the yet unfound meteorite which ripped into northeastern Arizona an unknown number of years ago and formed Meteor Crater (also called Coon Butte) about two miles east of Canyon Diablo. That meteorite ploughed a circular hole 4,000 ft. in diameter. 600 ft. deep, and threw up a rim 150 ft. above the surrounding plain. For years miners have been trying to locate its buried mass, for the sake of its iron and nickel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Meteorites | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Dressed, the President passes down a broad centre hall to the main staircase, or to the automatic elevator, which is nearer. On his left are guest rooms, furnished with tester beds, highboys, oldtime "wash-stands," rockers, clothes presses. On his right is the circular family sitting room, flushed with sunlight, a room with a generous fireplace, favorite easy chairs, favorite books, personal keepsakes-a warm home-like chamber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Description | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...course of a 1,623-word mass-circular letter mailed last week, soliciting new subscriptions (and offering royal scarlet art-pattern atlases as a premium), wrote Publisher Wilfrid John Funk of the Literary Digest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Flaming Funk | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

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