Word: needful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bridged the sea, and aircraft ride the sky with some degree of safety. But all is not conquered yet, and it is such incidents as this latest flight which show unsuccess. With all the encroachments of science on the domains of sea and sky, that man still has need of triple bronze who, like the two lost flyers, or like Chamberlin and Bertrand, who are preparing their own trans-Atlantic trip, will venture against the perennial foes...
There is small need for alarm Mexico still swarms with dark virile men who love nothing better than mixtures of blood and sand. But, alas, bulls come dear in this era--and seats for the slaughter must rise accordingly. The cinema is cheaper. Therefore the Mexican morale breaks down to the extent of deserting the bull fights for the inexpensive but amusing movies. The national hero is transformed from the person of the most efficient bull artist to that of the reigning screen star, be it man, woman, child or horse. For those who dance must pay the piper, quoth...
...Pinkerton '27, Harvard polo captain: "From all I've heard both teams are going to need transportation getting around the bases. We would be glad to place a few of our old nags at your disposal if you promise to keep them away from the trough at third base...
...must abandon the great phrase of Liberty," said Dictator Mussolini years ago, and added (TIME, Jan. 31), "Fascismo has already stepped, and, if need be, will quickly turn around to step once more over the more or less putrid body of the Goddess Liberty...
...Everything is war,' she thought, 'war under a mask ... I am not afraid to meet you face to face.'" She finds in 1914 that the crisis she must meet is complicated by the fact that Marc, her illegitimate son, is old enough not to feel the need for maternal intimacy. She goes away from Paris to teach in a country academy, leaving Marc in the city with her sister, Sylvie. She becomes involved in a friendship between Germain de Chavannes and a young German prisoner. At great risk, she unites these two, helping the German to escape...