Search Details

Word: esteli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...ancient maxim, attributed to Accursius (1182-1260) and much quoted by legalists, reads: Cuius est solum eius est usque ad coelum (He who owns the soil owns above it to the sky). Until recently this principle of property ownership was generally accepted, and air rights above property still sell for vast sums.* But the advent of air transport has vastly complicated Accursius' ancient tenet. When aircraft pass over a man's land or over foreign territory, is it trespass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: New and Romantic | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...largest asset item. Commercial banks at the year end held no less than 60% of the total national debt. Over bulging bond portfolios, over record bond prices, the bankers were a little jittery, fearing the inevitable upward turn in interest rates which will end the great est bull bond market in U. S. history (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bank Week | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...cracked up in New York, killed no one due to the landing skill of Pilot Dick Merrill. On Dec. 23, a Braniff Air Lines Lockheed plumped to earth at Dallas on a test flight, killed six. Total toll for the year on scheduled passenger transport planes was 59-high-est in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Tehachapi Toll | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

Sumner Willard '37 will direct the production of "Aisle de Nuit," while "Le Commissaire Est Bon Enfant" is directed by Mile. Germaine Arosa, who has directed successfully several plays in Paris and Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRENCH CLUB TO GIVE ANNUAL SHOW TONIGHT | 12/11/1936 | See Source »

Breaking a tradition followed since 1874 by showing two modern plays instead of those of older authors, the French Club will present "Aisle de Nuit," by Max Mauray, and "Le Commissaire Est Bon Enfant," by Georges Courteline, tonight at 8:30 o'clock at Brattle Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRENCH CLUB TO GIVE ANNUAL SHOW TONIGHT | 12/11/1936 | See Source »

Previous | 268 | 269 | 270 | 271 | 272 | 273 | 274 | 275 | 276 | 277 | 278 | 279 | 280 | 281 | 282 | 283 | 284 | 285 | 286 | 287 | 288 | Next