Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flying has not taken a firmer hold", said Lieutenant Thomas, "is that the planes which can be purchased by amateurs are not safe, and will not be allowed by the Army and Navy authorities. However, if Harvard can get a plane of the type of the Fokker machine, I look for rapid progress by the Club. The trouble in the past has not been that there have not been enough planes, but that there have not been enough capable pilots to fly them. This difficulty is being eliminated by the work of the Harvard-M. I. T. training course...
...about direct restriction of farm production?to get rid of the problem of the surplus by getting rid of the surplus. There are practical difficulties in the way of such procedure, although they might perhaps be overcome. It might lead to foreign ill-will and would look a bit inconsistent in the face of U. S. protest against British restriction on rubber production (TIME, Jan. 4). This third avenue is apparently not being forcibly suggested by any group, although the Department of Agriculture hinted at it in a report on 1924 crops last week...
...Union League Club in Manhattan, the staid rendezvous of successful business men, who look out with satisfaction on Fifth Ave. traffic coming up the hill from the south and going on to 42nd St., three blocks away, miners and operators met again after four months...
...want to congratulate you, Mr. Mayor, on having so many friends present. As I look about me, I remember some of their faces on Jan. 1, 1918, and again...
...Author. It was in 1921 that this young Harvard man, John (Roderigo) Dos Passos, first made a splash in the literary puddle with Three Soldiers, a realistic book about the War, a book that made war look too nasty to suit certain parties, although others looked upon it and recognized the ugly face of a monster they had met. Since then Mr. Dos Passos has wandered into poetry (A Pushcart at the Curb) and into essays (Rosinante to the Road Again) as well as continuing in the well-beaten track of the novel...