Word: might
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...club members are flyers, one of them might conveniently manage the club. At least five charter members should be qualified flyers. If novices are to be taught, a professional instructor should be hired. He could also supervise the maintenance of the planes. That is the Canadian and British system. Such an instructor-manager might be a commercial pilot operating in the neighborhood and working for the club only part time...
...chops are cooked, served. Courageous, Editor Burton eats of them. They are juicy, succulent, delicious. They produce no ill aftereffect. The year-old lamb might have come not last year, but last week, from green field and babbling brook...
...normally a stud farm. The finishing touches were being applied to his style ? a short left hook which many called vicious; the dempseyesque "weaving" which looks so well in the ring and keeps the other man guessing. Chiefly it is in the Schmeling right that the Schmeling might resides. It is swift, potent, and from it came all the early German knock outs which gave Schmeling fame and ideas. Black, red and yellow German flags fluttered all over the Lakewood camp because Herr Schmeling never forgets that he is a German. He likes it to be known that whenever...
...boxer, but he is an oppugnant fighter with a fine disregard for other people's punches. He was assuring everyone who would listen last week that he would defeat Schmeling with no trouble. Schmeling said he would defeat Uzcudun, intended doing it with his left although he might with his right. Uzcudun's known ability to "take it" (stand punishment), and uncertainty whether Schmeling can "take it" or not, was what made Uzcudun a 7-to-5 favorite in last week's betting...
...tristful poems on the day, last December, before she met her sudden death from a paralytic stroke (TiME, Dec. 24). She had found the title in John Donne: "But, because Angels could not propagate, nor make more Angels, he enlarged his love in making man, that so he might enjoy all natures at once, and have the nature of Angels, and the nature of earthly Creatures, in one Person...