Word: likings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...original subscribers to TIME?the inimitable. As such, I am especially interested in your aeronautical columns. While I am not seeking any gratuitous publicity for our city, I would like to mention the fact that recently Wilkes-Barre officially opened an airport which may truthfully be called the haven for fliers in the Alleghenies. Fliers, unless it has been absolutely necessary, have heretofore kept clear of this section because it lies on the outskirts of one of the most treacherous flying sections in the country. Treacherous, because there has never been a spot to set a ship down With...
...possible that Senator Smoot doesn't know that the West Riding of Yorkshire is one of the administrative divisions of the largest county in England, and contains large manufacturing cities like Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield, Huddersfield, Halifax, or is he joking, or trying to make Senator Harrison believe it is a protest from a riding club...
Painter Chandor's grandfather was Count Laszlo Chandor of Hungary, kin by marriage of the great Prince Metternich. His mother was an Irishwoman. Raised in England and at heart an Englishman, he, like many another young gentleman, considered it more sporting to go into the War as a "Tommy" in the ranks than to get a commission. After he came out, the tailstroke of what had smashed him up "a bit," smashed his family's fortunes. Instead of grubbing along or "going out" to the U. S. or Canada, he squared off at life, determined to develop his strongest talent...
Ingalls Inspects. David Sinton Ingalls. Assistant Secretary of the Navy in charge of Aeronautics, last week began an air inspection trip to all Navy stations and bases. He flew his own plane solo, and, like a cavalry officer with his aide trotting behind, had Commander R. P. Molten flying along in another plane...
...players is without parallel. The new junior champions-who went undefeated through 1927, won the Meadowbrook and Hempstead Cups last year and this year defeated Winston Guest's freebooters for the Westbury Cup-are all graduates of the Meadow Larks, a training school organized by her with experts like Devereaux Milburn and Malcolm Stevenson supervising and refereeing. Internationalist Guest was once a Meadow Lark. Some, and perhaps all of the present Old Aikens will doubtless become Internationalists. "Schooling" for polo means learning horsemanship with and without a mallet. It means, as taught by Mrs. Hitchcock, even beginning on foot...