Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have never loved money for its own sake. ... I have tried to make money that it might be an instrument of service...
Fascists dismissed for scandalous cause have always been dropped into a well of silence. If the press were allowed to expose the rascality of ex-Fascists, sooner or later the public might suspect that some Fascist in good standing is a rascal top. Last week the press gag was crammed in tight, as Dictator Mussolini dismissed Tycoon Belloni in disgrace. But rumor cannot be stifled. Soon it was believed that...
...Returning to Paris in 1926, he later began La Revue des Vivants with the help of other War survivors (his Croix de Guerre is for Verdun). Now aged 53, he continues in the French Senate, a potent member of the foreign affairs committee. His book about France's Mirabeau might be in a measure paralleled in the U.S. if Senator Borah should break the tradition of inartisticness in U. S. politics and write a frank, intelligent, amusing life of Tom Paine...
Aeronautics, William B. Ziff's aviation monthly published in Chicago, recently printed the idea as a corollary of Col. William Mitchell's revived demand for a Department of Aeronautics (TIME. June 10). The National Aviation Academy might be located at some midcontinent point remote from possible boundary invasions. To it Congressmen might nominate cadets who would get a four-year training in mechanics, piloting, tactics, strategy. Graduates would be able to move in war as an independent force, instead of as auxiliaries to Army or Navy groups...
That endurance refueling flights entered the category of flagpole sittings and marathon dances in laymen's minds, since monotony entered and anything valuable that might be proved about men or machinery seemed proved up to the hilt and beyond...