Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great scale is subject to two inherent and stubborn difficulties. The first is the Asiatic complex. Anything approaching world confederation must take account of the two enormous aggregations of population in India and China, which together include about half the human race. No world union is possible so long as this vast population might out-vote the rest of the globe. The second difficulty is that, if the majestic idea of a vast federation is actually carried out in Europe, two of the most important units must he omitted. The first of them is Russia. Five-sixths of the population...
This week-end the Flying Club is undertaking its first cross-country flight of the season. The plane, piloted by R. Gilmor '31 and G. Rand '32, will fly to the Aviation Country Club at Hicksville, Long Island, today and will be flown from there by other members who are spending the week-end on Long Island. The purpose of the flight is to provide experience in cross-country flying for qualified pilots, and to create an outside interest in the club and its activities...
...literary this year has been planned so as to avoid the time and expense involved in long hops between towns, such as was experienced in the 1927-1928 trip which included St. Louis, Augusta, Atlanta and Nashville...
Purposely we have delayed long in making comment upon the order of a Harvard professor that there be no coughing in his classroom...
...rise, however, to the defense of the man or woman of right babbles who had been too long the subject of criticism that is unfair...