Word: directe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week rumor rose that for next summer a direct flight to China was proposed for the first of flyers. An accomplished and reliable Chinese gentleman, also an aviator, sponsored the rumor. Skeptics pointed out that such a spectacular bid for Chinese good will was among the more remote problems of immediate statecraft. Hard-headed U. S. men, soft-hearted U. S. women grumblingly asked when the dangerous far-flung flights of Col. Lindbergh would cease...
HONOR TO INFORM YOU WITH PLEASURE THAT TODAY AT TWELVE TWENTY SIX HE STARTED ON HIS DIRECT FLIGHT TO MEXICO...
...huge navy. Such advances as those of Lord Bridgman, calculated as an antidote to the bad taste of the international deadlock at Geneva, are ignored. Although the scope of resultant feeling is not determinable at present, it is already clear that Great Britain has given the cut direct to her cruisers, while the United States has given it to Great Britain...
...problem of opium has a direct bearing upon militarism. It is a patent fact that opium growing has become more extensive in the provinces. The country itself which nine years ago was almost rid of opium, is now the scene of a brisk smuggling trade that is protected by the militarists for the sake of the large revenue the opium trade yields. Lack of political unity is easily recognizable in china, tor while the Chinese have a remarkable solidarity, there is nevertheless, no well-articulated national feeling. The imperial government has been a mere figure-head to the far distant...
...reach of every boy and girl in America, whereas the number of children in Europe who may receive an education is necessarily restricted. High schools in America are controlled by the locality in which they are, but in most European countries, either the Federal or State Government have direct control of the schools