Word: englanders
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...suggestion to teach aeronautical theory in our universities is strongly to the point. Lieut, Sir Arthur Brown of the Royal Air Force, responsible for this piece of good counsel, must have noticed the pitifully small scale of our flying service, compared with that of England. Perhaps our slow progress at present deserves excuse, because other far reaching problems confront the Government in the form of labor questions. But in the near future we are likely to see the formation by Congress of a special Department of Aeronautics. A bill to that effect is before the Senate now. The new department...
...works. This marks the first appearance in Boston of the noted Irish playright, and, though it will be impossible for him to lecture at the University on this visit, efforts are now being made to secure him for later in the year when he returns to New England...
...When an English merchant sends his goods forty miles across the channel into France, that is considered foreign trade. But when a New England manufacturer sends his products three thousand miles across the continent to California, it is merely interstate commerce. It is easy to see, therefore, that the volume of American commerce has been great, although it has not been specifically designated as foreign trade...
...organization to be known as the "Studenterraadet," whose purpose is to improve the understanding between Denmark and other countries by an interchange of university undergraduates and college students. The plan, which has had no precedent, has created a great deal of interest on the Continent, especially in France and England, where the ministries of education have asked for personal conferences with representatives of the Danish Students' Council. A Scandinavian Bureau of Information has now been established in Paris and another in London...
...help regarding us with suspicion. What, then, of our prominent trade expansion? Trade come not easily to those who do not inspire confidence and who are late in the field besides. The loud-sounding phrases and round periods of our senators will fall rather flat at the sight of England, France and Italy "gobbling up" the world trade that was to have been ours...