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Word: horizons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Personally, however, I feel that I shall break this family tradition. To me, and I have given the matter much thought, the moment when the sun sinks below the horizon is the right moment. What do others think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 18, 1931 | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...star has appeared on the political horizon in the form of the League for Independent Political Action which this week held its first Massachusetts organization meeting in Boston. The League, while it is not itself a political party, seeks to unite the progressive elements in the country in order to break the hold which the powerful industrial and commercial interests have over the government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN OPPOSITION PARTY | 3/7/1931 | See Source »

...when two things happened: 1) Autogiro Co. of America advertised to the public that autogiros may now be bought, and 2) Detroit News bought and received the first commercial autogiro in the world. Next month one will be taken by Standard Oil Co. of New York and one by Horizon Co., subsidiary of Silver Brook Anthracite Co. specially formed to operate the ship because the coal company's rules forbid its officers to fly. Last month the Navy ordered one for experiment (TIME, Feb. 9). Some purport to see in the autogiro the means of putting aviation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: For Sale: Autogiros | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

...super-highways of Detroit indicate that the major city trunk lines of the future will be non-stop express ways probably of elevated construction. There can be little doubt that the economic savings will warrant the development. They offer the most important single step in the urban traffic horizon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXPERT FORESEES TRAFFIC INCREASE DURING NEXT YEAR | 2/5/1931 | See Source »

Onetime British Soldier Aldington disagrees with the late great French Soldier Foch. Foch was usually wise enough to stick to his horizon-blue muttons, but once hazarded the opinion that the heroic soldier's reward was glory. In these 13 stories Aldington gives various examples of the soldier's reward. In the light of the title, all are bitterly satirical. Some of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cassandra-Prophecy* | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

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