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Sirs: In this week's issue you make mention of Coolidge shaking the "hand" of a "flea-hound"- but make no note of his shaking another hand- less hairy, more skillful-which during the last year has flown airplanes for 1,251 hours without accident of any kind to plane or personnel, and directed 107 individuals to fly successfully. Lt. J. E. Dyer, U. S. N., was awarded the Herbert Schiff Memorial Trophy for safe flying by President Coolidge on December 15. His record exceeds by nearly 500 hours that of any other winner of the trophy. There...
Vividly do Swedes recall a day a few months ago when the Principe Alfonso slid swiftly out of Stockholm harbor. Aboard was King Alfonso XIII, the first King of Spain ever to visit Sweden (TIME, Sept. 24). But what was the tiny speedboat that darted like a water flea after the large ship? Swedes recall that the speedboat drew alongside the Principe Alfonso which, churning the water to soapy froth, stopped. A box was lifted aboard with pulleys. The Principe Alfonso moved on. The impertinent little speedboat shot back toward Stockholm. What did it all mean...
...tradition and "the elements of that tradition are so far removed from the actualities of modern life that we are almost wholly at a loss when we attempt to pass critical judgments upon what is now going on,"--or in Bertrand Russell's opinion "we do not contemplate a flea; we catch...
...familiar upper-New Jersey hillets and meadows revolved like a slow treadmill, until the heterogeneous mass of the Manhattan topography was seen waiting. Manhattan-on-the-roof facetiously commented upon the alcoholic content of the ship's beverage supply. Many a snippy monoplane, a half-dozen biplanes swirled like fleas about the elephantine Zeppelin. One of them, a plane bearing news photographers, nearly brushed the hide of the ship, aroused the nervous ire of Eckener, who frantically waved the annoying flea away, but not before excellent shots of the gaping wound in the port stabilizer had been obtained. Somewhere near...
...pond animal life reproduced at the Museum there are water fleas, protozoa (single-celled animals), insect larvae, and rotifers. The rotifers, most interesting, give their name to the entire exhibit. The commonest kinds are shaped like tops. The rotifer head is round and surrounded at the flat shoulder with fine cilia which vibrate (in life) so rapidly one after another around the circle of shoulder that the whole body seems to rotate. They are voracious and pugnacious, crouching on a microscopic plant and then swiftly springing at a stray water flea, a protozoa, a bit of leaf...