Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pace and on the plane thus set by Critic Fadiman, USA proceeded to present in rapid, sure-fire fashion, a mixture of the nation's cultural foibles and virtues. Readers had no difficulty guessing which material was placed by the editors in which category...
...Pierce Hall. The lecturer will summarize his earlier talks on international airports as ports of entry, on the flying boat, and on American airports, present and future, closing with a general discussion of the whole problem. Hanks will illustrate his talk with moving pictures from one airplane showing another plane doing almost all the stunts known to aviators. He will also consider the relative importance of "air space" and "ground space...
...chronicle of the Caterpillar Club appears this week in a new book Jump! by Don Glassman,graduate of the University of Missouri, journalist. A "Caterpillar" is a flyer who has dropped over the side of a disabled or lost plane-like a butterfly wriggling out of its cocoon-and swung down through space to safety with parachute mushrooming over his head...
Last Loop. "He ascended on Oct. 27, 1918, only two weeks before the end of the War. He attacked and crashed one enemy plane. Another attacked him. He was wounded in the right thigh, but sent the enemy down in flames. An entire formation of German Fokkers attacked him from all sides. Shot this time in the left thigh, he sent down two more planes. He lost consciousness for a few minutes, but recovered from his dive and singled out one of the following enemy planes. He sent it, also, to earth in flames. His left elbow was shattered...
Dartmouth in the East, however, and such universities as Illinois, Michigan, and Leland Stanford in the West, have abolished the requirement of Ancient Languages for the A. B. degree, and have put the Classics on the same plane as the more practical, if traditionally less honored, modern languages. Harvard would certainly be in good company in changing its present requirements; and Harvard is in a position where such a change is perhaps even more logical than in the other universities. The system of Concentration and Distribution has so effectively separated Harvard undergraduates into students of Liberal Arts and students...