Word: crafts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...traditional round of aristocratic preferment have smoothed his path. As Under Secretary for the Colonies under Mr. Lloyd George; as British representative on the Council of the League of Nations in 1923; and as Minister of Agriculture in the present Cabinet, he has had wide experience in states-craft if not a scintillant career. In India his experience and his aristocratic background will well become the Viceregal Lodge at Delhi. Meanwhile historians turned, to contemplate the retiring Viceroy; prepared to write the Earl of Reading down as one who has dominated India with tactful potency since...
...seaplane (the adjective is not redundant) skimmed the upper surface of the Mediterranean off Spezia. An Italian submarine skimmed the under surface, only the top of its periscope showing. With a splintering crash, periscope met plane. The aviators somersaulted unhurt into the sea. The submarine commander, quickly bringing his craft to the surface, joined his crew in smiling broadly. The accident is thought to be unique. A tourist arriving at Geneva from Italy, last week, is reported to have brought with him a Fascist pamphlet filled catechismwise with questions and answers. An example...
...plane (cost of $7,500,000), appropriating $22,500,000 for maintenance of equipment, and $5,000,000 a year for flying fields-total cost $87,500,000 a year, providing the military branches give up the aeronautical engineering bureaus, aircraft factories and experimental stations, buying all their craft from commercial companies...
...amplify their earlier statements. Notable of these was Admiral Moffett, chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics of the Navy. He recommended a series of improvements in the naval air service including: 1) removing the legal limitation on the number of naval shore-stations devoted to heavier-than-air craft; 2) increasing the enlisted personnel of the naval air service; 3) establishment of an airship base on the Pacific coast; 4) replacement of the Shenandoah as soon as practicable with a ship of about twice her size; 5) a five year program of airplane and airship construction; 6) provision for adequate...
...esteem in which the Cinema is held by many sensible folk?so grotesque, so cheap, so shriekingly impossible are the Hollywood conceptions of these same sensible people in domestic difficulties. In this case one wife could cook and was cold; the other had an overabundance of feelings but no craft at biscuit-baking. Their husbands exchanged. Then nobody was happy...