Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great figure emerges out of this fog-the President. He is a great pilot. He skillfully avoids the shoals and rocks. . . . He is willing to bend, if necessary. . . . He is really a great man. . . . What happens in the Cabinet is never disclosed. . . . However, Mr. Hoover has a group who will handle the executive end of the Government efficiently and very honestly...
...list of Pulitzer prizes in TIME, May 20, you failed to include the name of Louis I. Jaffe, editor of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot as having won the prize for the best newspaper editorial for the year...
...feature of the aviation motor of the future is that it will be stopped by nothing but a smash or a pilot...
Punch represents thousands of solid respectable British families. It is read in every quarter of the globe. It was Punch that first mourned the death of Lincoln; that published the famed cartoon, "Dropping the Pilot," when the young German Kaiser forced Bismarck to resign; that opposed the Irish Home Rulers; that grew most exercised over Mayor Thompson's (Chicago) anti-British antics...
Lately Mr. McAdoo, who now is practicing law in Los Angeles and Washington, D. C., bought himself a Wasp-motored Lockheed-Vega ship with seats for five. It can make 180 m. p. h. That is not fast enough to please the owner. He often makes his pilot shoot up at as sharp an angle as possible and nose-dive to the limit of safety. Few men of 65 dare put their hearts to the strain of such quick altitude changes...