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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attention has been called to a statement respecting pending cruiser legislation. I have made no public or private statement upon this question, further than appeared during the campaign. I have stated universally to various callers that it would be improper for me to express any views on current matters of the administration. I regret if this reticence should result in misapprehension. As you know, I warmly support your own views and you may so inform others if you wish...
Examinations were made to be passed, but the character of the divisional may be changed by making it merely an opportunity for the student to organize and express what he has learned of a whole subject in three full years of study and reflection. In the freedom of extended time the less ambitious will find an advantage and the capable undergraduate will more nearly approach an understanding of his field sufficient for him to attempt a small specialized job in the form of a thesis in his final year. From a hurdle for the honors men the divisional becomes...
...found it reliable. The event was significant. In the present industrialization of aeronautics two factors have become highly important- private and commercial exploitation. Some twoscore aircraft companies are making small planes for private gadabouting. Less than a dozen are important manufacturers of great planes capable of carrying pay passengers, express, mail. They are to flying what buses and trucks are to motor ing. The greater their payload per trip, the greater their profits. Fokker and Ford-Stout certainly have the lead in transport manufacture. Close to them is Loening, who makes amphibians. Another amphibian maker is Sikorsky, whose development...
...lion and the lamb. President Edward Wentworth Beatty of the Canadian Pacific heads one of the world's famed transportation systems. Travelers can journey from Liverpool to Yokohama on Canadian Pacific liners and trains and stop en route at Canadian Pacific hotels. The company also operates its own express, telegraph and news services...
...beauty" was noisily bullying her husband; and between them ran the rumor of a typical French railway accident up the line. Alan Frith-Walter's benignity was therefore disturbed-only to be completely upheaved at the sight of Pearl. Why was she on the Rome express, why had he not known of her trip, why was his son not with her? Conjugal difficulties? Scandal in the Frith-Walter family...