Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME prints letters just as they are received, does not "doctor" them (except to omit those portions which are irrelevant, prolix), does not respell them. The sincerity of Farmer Crane's letter spoke for itself-spoke far more eloquently than could fine phrases, fancy spellings...
...most radical Chinese faction, the editor of the People's Tribune wrote, last week: "There are whispers of woe and impending disaster in the air." Actually the "whispers" were shouts of terror. Four armies, representing the so-called "moderate" factions of China* were encircling Hankow from all directions except the Northwest. Thus the fall of Hankow, and butchery of actual as well as so-called "Reds" there, seemed last week momentarily imminent...
Getting a plane off the ground is not dangerous except when carrying a close-to-maximum load. A light plane may need only a 100-yard runway. Planes are usually launched against the wind, at a speed between 50 and 90 miles per hour, depending on their weight. The pilot watches his tachometre to make sure that the engine is making a sufficient number of revolutions per minute.* Then he pushes the joy stick forward slightly to get the plane's tail skid off the ground, pulls it backward and the plane rises. Green pilots sometimes try to elevate...
Flying a straight course is as devoid of sensations as sitting in a placid hammock-except when the air is "bumpy." Air currents shooting up over hills and mountains, diving down over seashore cliffs and into valleys, make flying bumpy, cause a plane to rise or sink suddenly. Even on a day that is calm and sunshiny, there may be bumps...
...Pictures share equally with the writing in story-telling importance. Artist Thomason draws as he writes except that he does it a little better. In sketches full of rapid motion his pen achieves subtleties which his typewriter is too unwieldy to reproduce. The current Cosmopolitan Magazine introduces him as a full-fledged professional illustrator of other people's stories...