Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ports. Guided by wireless, the seaplane will alight near a liner and be hoisted aboard. The wings are to be of the folding type, which reduces considerably the space required for storing. When the ship is still hundreds of miles from the English coast the plane will be hoisted overboard and will fly away with the mail...
...inasmuch as the number of scholars that could be profitably employed was limited largely by the number of officials that could be maintained, the proportion of the population getting an education was extremely small. Great progress has been made in the twenty years since the old system was thrown overboard, but the fact remains that not over 10 percent of the people are literate, probably not over 10 percent of the children of school age are actually in Scholl and when one considers the financial resources of the country, the task of providing universal education seems almost impossible. One should...
There is an air of foolishness about it all--this serious, cold-blooded hunting of a "spook", that appeals to one's sense of the ludicrous. Yet there is a certain reluctance, too, to see an old romantic supposition thus thrown overboard, and "ghaieties, and ghoulies, and things that go bump in the nicht" relegated to the sphere of the harmless. If this goes on much longer, Poe will be regarded as hopelessly mediaeval, and night-time will resolve itself into a mere prosaic absence of daylight, and we shall all be carrying our own outfits of ghost-catchers...
...grim ghettos to fight the battle of conscience and convenience in this strange world in which he had been placed by the turning fortunes of his history. As yet no adequate solution has been found. Some, weary with the long struggle, throw the burden of inheritance overboard, and thus emancipated, freed, and untrammeled, set out to claim their share of the world's goods, in which they are quite often very successful. But instead of being welcomed by the world, they are not infrequently regarded as invaders and intruders. Others, quite willing to resist the lure of the great world...