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With a Luddington plane equipped somewhat as was Handley Page's, Clarence Chamberlin at Teterboro, last week kept an even keel when flying at only 15 miles a hour. He could take off with a short run of 60 feet; could land with only a 75-ft. roll...
...hawk. "It is a matter of indifference what it represents," said Sculptor Epstein, "but if the artist calls it a bird, so do I. In this there are certain elements of a bird. The profile suggests perhaps the breast of a bird." "It might also suggest the keel of a boat or the crescent of a new moon," said Presiding Justice Waite. Assistant Attorney General Marcus Higgenbotham said: "A mechanic could have done this thing." Countered Sculptor Epstein: "No ... he could have polished this but he could not have conceived it." Finally, sick of a nagging, abstruse controversy, Justice Waite...
Like his good friends Thomas Paine, B. Franklin and T. Jefferson, he was a Diest. Also, in all matters, he was an able politician. He knew that religion is the keel of the Ship of State. So he said that in the great capital city which he wanted on the banks of the Potomac River, there should be a great building: dedicated to the new nation's religious life. This purpose the Episcopalians intend that Washington Cathedral shall answer...
...about the story was this: A big U. S. battleship, the Maine, had rested in the harbor of Havana and there, one soft evening, when the captain was on shore, a greasy Spaniard had externally applied explosives, which had blown a hole through her bottom and had driven her keel upward through her deck. Most of the sailors, 258 of them, and two of the officers had been killed. In Washington, men in frock coats sat around long tables and talked into a blue haze of cigar smoke. Ambassadors called on one another and chatted over tea or whiskey & soda...
...ships, Mary Hansyke's eager and concentrated mind could not for long be satisfied. They plan to go away together, but quietly, alone, he goes first. "Forever young, forever brave, forever proud, Mary Hansyke walked across the old shipyard, while the John Garton moved down the harbor, her keel parting a shoreless sea, her prow lifted to the air of eternity. A lovely ship...