Word: mono
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they did-300 Command-Aires,† 500 American Eagles, 500 Travel Airs, 200 Swallows. Fairchild and Curtiss made large contracts for plane deliveries. Scarcely was there a plane manufacturer who did not book immediate orders. Kreider-Reisner Challengers were popular,*as were Hamilton Metalplanes, Mohawk Pintos, Monarchs, Mono-coupes, Advance Wacos, and Consolidated Husky Juniors. Customers for the most part were young men. Air transport managers-for Transcontinental, National, Boeing, Western Air Express, Pan-American-examined the huge passenger planes -Fords, Fokkers, Loenings, Boeings, Keystones, Ryans, Stinson-Detroiters...
Jubilantly Captain Sir George Hubert Wilkins, who last spring flew the Arctic and is now at Deception Island to fly to the South Pole, last week sent radiograms -to the Lockheed Aircraft Co.: "Both Lockheed [Vega] [mono] planes performed splendidly on first Antarctic flight"; to the Wright Aeronautical Corp.: "Whirlwinds [motors] performing perfectly on first Antarctic flight ever made;" to the Hearst papers, his backers: "Mild weather has melted snow on landing field, so tests were made with wheels...
...Author. More interested in mono type and printer's ink than vacuum-cleaners and Patou models, Virginia Woolf ? and her husband ? set up a small hand press in 1912, and printed limited editions of choice books, her own among them. Since then, the Hogarth Press has grown, through success, to a full-fledged publishing house with appropriate offices near the British Museum...
Granting the evidence for Columbia's abhorrence of the mono-minded Ph.D, her new undergraduate program seems a mere distinction without a difference. The only clearly defined change, that of allowing the scholar and the professional man to specialize immediately on entering college, is not to be applauded. It was possible under the old elective system at Harvard and was considered one of its most glaring faults...
Says Shaw with superb candor: "My reason for taking out a private mono-mark is that I am what is called a celebrity. It is sometimes excessively inconvenient to be a celebrity, because of the advertising value of a celebrated name...