Word: markedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both the politician and the clergy, man missed the mark completely. To say that any encouragement of college men as a class to become a self-conscious group bent on leadership will result in the curtailment of legal or economic rights now enjoyed by the majority is mere demagoguery. To say that class leadership is wrong is nonsense. Already our social system is a resultant of classes clashing as classes. Banking as a class, labor as a class, politicians as a class, lawyers as a class, all are bent on control. Why not make an attempt to wake...
Hosing. A Keystone Army bomber over Manhattan and a Ryan monoplane over Fort Worth, Texas, each last week received their gasoline by hose. This was the method which enabled Captain Ira Eaker and his crew of four to keep the Army Fokker Question Mark above Southern California 150 hrs., 40 min., 16 sec., last January (TIME, Jan. 14), longer than any human had ever stayed...
...feet apart, the upper one drops a rubber hose. As the hose whips about, a man below catches its free end and inserts it into his fuel tank. Thus the two planes are connected by a sort of umbilical cord through which gasoline flows. In the Question Mark experiment, the feed hose would sometimes break loose, the men below would get drenched. But drenching was an incident which did not invalidate this refueling method. Food and messages were also passed between the two planes, a rope substituting for the hose...
...Norman Edward Mack, a Canadian country boy who had learned about advertising in Chicago, was establishing the Times in Buffalo. At first it was a Sunday paper only. In 1883, he made it a daily. It served him well, and he it, during a career of which the high mark was the Mack chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee (1908). Upon selling out to Scripps-Howard, Mr. Mack, now 70, has retired...
...Progress in aviation is not up to the mark. About all that has been done thus far has been to prove that...