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...well known that a highly efficient airplane engine can lift only 50 Ibs. for every horsepower that it can generate. Figuring the average man to weigh 150 Ibs., he would need at least three horsepower to pull himself through the air, and he can produce only one-tenth of a horsepower himself. Ability to magnify that puny force by aeromechanics is Captain Dibovsky's claim...
...Newton D. Baker as presidential timber, Mr. C. B. Bratton, Waco, Tex., writes (TiME, Letters, Dec. 5) : "No man that ever held a commission in the A. E. F. would vote for him." Mr. Bratton does not know all officers who were in Europe ! Mr. Bratton does not know one-tenth - not one one-hundredth of the officers who were in Europe ! Mr. Bratton does not know anything about the voting inclinations of any of the officers who were in Europe, except, perhaps, the comparatively infinitesimal few whom he came in personal contact with. Therefore, Mr. Bratton does not know...
...that war was the worst evil in the world, Haddon asked what would have become of the American contribution to civilization if the fathers of the Revolution had been "lily white pacifists." Even admitting that pacifism was a Christian doctrine, which he vigorously denied. Haddon pointed out that not one-tenth of the world even claimed to be Christian, and that the Mohammedan Koran taught reliance on the "long arm and glittering saber." War is essential to the enforcement of law among nations, just as punishment is needed for civil offences, Haddon maintained...
...Governors of California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming govern almost one-tenth of all North America, more than one-quarter of the continental U. S. As to rainfall, theirs is the dryest quarter. They were an important group of political potentates when they all came together last week at Denver...
...quaint feature of the banquet was that, although Mr. Blumenfeld was born in the U. S., not one-tenth of 1% of his fellow countrymen have the slighest idea who he is. Londoners know that "Blum" has been editor of the Daily Express since 1904. He came to London from Manhattan in 1887 under orders from the late famed James Gordon Bennett to report Queen Victoria's first Jubilee. British tradition insists that "Blum has been in London ever since"; but that is an error. Actually he was Superintendent of the New York Herald in 1894; and not until...