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Boeing Air Transport, which was later incorporated into United Airlines, was the first radio-equipped transport line; the first with stewardesses, one of the earliest with pilots in uniform. In 1933 Phil Johnson built the first all-metal, twin-engined transport-the famed Boeing 247, which instantly outmoded the hodgepodge of U.S. aircraft equipment...
Cognoscenti, up to now, have thought the St. Christopher, dated 1423, among the earliest prints. Is your art editor on vacation...
Most analysts find it difficult to believe in Harold's powers of recollection from the cradle. They believe that two to three is the earliest age at which a child understands what it sees well enough to describe the incident later...
Feasting and jollity has been a feature of Commencement since earliest time (although the war has somewhat sobere the occasion--Ed.), and even in earl Harvard every Bachelor of Master 0 Arts had to pay a commencement fee 0 *3, about the equivalent of two years tuition; and it is only within (thirty years that the last commencement fee were abolished at Harvard. These fee went to pay the expenses of the commencement dinner for graduates who altended. It was felt to be a great privilege to be admitted to the society of educate men; hence students ought...
...Negro population knew this new American folk idiom. Today, the popularity of Duke Ellington among the name bands, the crowded bistros of New York's 52nd Street and Greenwich Village, and the prodigious increase in the issue of jazz recordings attest that people, far from becoming bored with the earliest and purest forms of folk music, are just beginning to cultivate an appreciative taste for them...