Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take this opportunity to call your attention to the fact that the Bellanca low-wing monoplane "The Dorothy" used by Captain Mollison was not purchased with the idea in mind" of entering it in the Johannesburg Air Race. The deposit on the aircraft was received on Sept. 10 and Captain Mollison arrived in the U. S. the latter part of September, first coming to our factory on the 28th. The Johannesburg Race started at dawn from London on Sept. 29. The delivery date given Captain Mollison when placing the order was October 15; our pilot tested the machine...
...class-you'll ride The Shreveporter to Hope, Ark. and it's a train, air-cooled V everything. Show me something better "up North!" You wouldn't call Dallas, New Orleans, Natchez and Shreveport "backwoods," would you? Perhaps the inspiration comes from your idea of the country we traverse. If it does, then you're wrong again. The Mississippi Valley isn't "backwoods." Neither is the famous, fertile Red River Valley. Neither is the rich, agricultural section of North Texas. (I'm attaching a map showing this country. You oughta read up about...
...also a link between Harvard and the preparatory schools. Inaugurating what he hoped would be a precedent, the president of P.B.H. last year covered the larger schools in New England, answering questions on Harvard and Phillips Brooks House. Thus many men entering Harvard this fall already had a clear idea of the significance of the freshman committee and a desire to make...
...many times in the past has this idea been envisaged, only to fade into semi-oblivion; dimmed by delay, criticism and the force of more pressing problems. Through the depression years, when millions were relying on alms for life, bread and medical care, the idea of social insurance loomed ever higher as a vital need when the time should present itself for the country's reorganization. Though the proverbial horse had fled, it seemed better to lock the door once again than to forget entirely and to move on in willful blindness. Yet the idea then seemed too large...
Unfortunately director Leroy devotes a lot of film to developing this profusion of plot, and the impact of the central idea is lost. Anthony is a tragic figure hounded by misfortune. He is unable to take his bride to Havana because a letter she leaves him is blown away by the wind. Business conditions force him to spend many years in Africa while he loses touch with his wife. When the lovers are finally united she has become so compromised in court intrigue and gossip that she cannot join him in America. The great ambition of the orphan...