Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...factor that will do more than anything else to aid the cause of aviation, will be the advance of the science of meteorology. Until flyers have some accurate way of determining the weather before starting on a flight, there will always be expense and a low factor of safety connected with aviation. As long as flying can be considered a dangerous luxury for individuals, conservatives will criticise it with some degree of impunity as an evil and unnecessary invention...
Severo Pancho, nimble Filipino, kissed a professional dancing girl in Manila when the lights were low and the music seductive. She brought suit. Last week the Supreme Court of the Philippines decided that a man who kisses a girl in such an environment is a "victim of circumstances"; hence Senor Pancho was "not guilty...
Robert B. Howell, 62, Senator from Nebraska, is the milder light from the cornhuskers' state. He is a better civil engineer and businessman than politician. At home, people know him best as the able manager of the municipal utilities. He says little, admires Roosevelt, wants a low tariff. It was once said: "On the color scale Colonel Brookhart [see below] registers a near-red, while Mr. Howell appears only a pale pink...
...time fear spread that the crews might have to go hungry. Food stores were running low. But there was greater danger that some of them might be killed, for the vessels, with plates only five-eighths of an inch thick, stood in constant danger of being crushed by the squeezing ice. The potential destruction of property aggregated some $200,000,000; insurance lapsed with the first week of the month...
...rural districts, at his worst in the cities. As the tenant of a small farm or as the worker in a cotton or tobacco field, he is content and productive; but in the cities indolence and vice seem to be stimulated. Politics, lynching and the relations between low whites and Negro women are three of the most vexing problems. Professor Dowd analyzes various schemes for the solution of the Negro problem-civil equality, amalgamation, colonization, segregation, creation of a Black Belt Free State-and finds them all insufficient or impossible. He concludes that there is no solution, that there...