Word: fitfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sleep 18 passengers, speed at about 250 m.p.h. with 75% of the power of four Wright "Cyclones." As mail or experimental planes, they will have a range of 4,000 miles. Cost: $300,000 each. P.A.A. is to get two within the year, outfitted with mechanical cabin superchargers to fit them for high flying. Last week P.A.A. refused to divulge where it would use the two ships, but observers guessed that the two ships would start experimental high-altitude flights across the Atlantic. T.W.A. needs new planes at once, will not have superchargers installed until it sees how Pan American...
...symbol of the growing interest in political sciences, the Guardian, and this its latest venture, fit into the picture that as rapidly taking shape in Cambridge. Along with the continuous increase in the number of concentrators in Government and Economics, an increase brought about by the growing importance of government in the national economy, has come a recognition that public service will absorb a greater percentage of Harvard graduates than ever before. And the Littauer School, another offshot of this movement, will attempt to give these men specialized training before they take up their individual positions on the governmental payroll...
...Nizam of Hyderabad is supposed to have once refused to pay 6? for a dab of ice cream, rebuking the vendor for asking this "high price." In Sunday supplements he is said to have his worn clothing cut down to fit the next smaller member of the Royal Family, and so on. In fact the World's Richest Man is just about as tight & loose with his money as the poorer John D. Rockefellers. One of his old Hyderabad customs is never to receive one of his subjects, no matter how poor, unless the subject brings a cash present...
...take good care of themselves and live the protected and regular life of a judge are more likely now to be fit at 70 than were their predecessors at 65 under the conditions of 50 years ago. . . . Compulsory retirement at 75 could more easily be defended. "The community has no more valuable asset than an experienced judge. It takes a new judge a long time to become completely master of the material of his court. Contrary to general opinion, the work of the court tends to keep a man keen-witted and earnest...
...favorite brother ever since they both had to pose in bothersome robes and coronets as budding regalites (see cut), she greeted him as the English do when they are too overwhelmed with emotion to manage more than a shy triviality. Said Mary to Edward: "Well, you do look fit." The onetime King-Emperor, apparently on the verge of tears, could say nothing at first as he and the Princess Royal gripped hands, while Lord Harewood discreetly fell into conversation with photographers. By next day Edward VIII seemed in high spirits, showed his sister & brother-in-law assiduously through the miles...