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Pilots have got on the wrong leg of a radio range before, but few have posed questions to their dispatchers like those that Pilot Stead now proceeded to ask. He wanted to know what was the engine's best manifold pressure to conserve...
...immediate advantages the student may gain from this new field are manifold. Not only will concentration in the Department reduce the length of the entire course by a full year, but two new surveys, each of which will last two years, will help integrate the material to be covered. From his undergraduate studies, the student will also be able to judge his aptitude for the work...
...some 15,000,000 low-salaried German workers the most active and pleasurable of the Reich's manifold organizations is the recreation-providing, culture-giving Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy) Society. To 3,500,000 Italian workers membership in the Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro (National After-Work Organization) is a similar welcome means of getting cheap theatre and opera seats, cut-price vacations, inexpensive athletic facilities, free instruction in artistic and cultural studies...
...meeting of the high command of the Society of Jesus since 1923-French Catholics believe that this Jesuit left wing predominated. Immensely secret, the Congregation revealed only that it had elected a Perpetual Vicar General for the order, to help the ailing General, Very Rev. Wlodimir Ledochowsky, with his manifold duties. The new Vicar General, a 37-year-old Belgian named Maurice Schurmans, was saluted by French Jesuits as an able antiFascist, of a neutral nation, who would help orient the policies of the Society of Jesus toward a world-wide battle against Fascism as well as Communism...
...stories, fables, philosophies, and poetry which make up the Old Testament are manifold, and, as far as the Vagabond is concerned, those few bits with which he is conversant are eternal and inviolate--chiselled into his youthful Sunday School memory while it was yet malleable. There is no comparable literature so beautifully turned and so thoughtfully set down; none other has survived the harsh voyage down the ages, through third and fourth generations, even unto the hundreth and two hundreth and more...