Word: pointedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Optimistic Royal Air Force officials pointed out that although 25 of their airmen have lost their lives this year, the number was 48 in 1927 and 85 in 1926. With a little luck 1928 will not be Death's Banner Year.
Occidental skeptics at Peking pointed out, last week, that the ceremony just described is common enough in the Buddhist monasteries of China but differs slightly from Tibetan practice. They doubted the exactness of the Chinese newspapers as to details, but hoped that Scholar Wu Pei-fu has indeed attained a...
Solemn and deep-voiced Professor Jabavu, of the South African Native College, pointed out that in his country, while there are five blacks to one white, 88% of educational funds are spent on whites. The Rev. Dr. Charles Pugh, who had come from the Congo Free State, said that in...
"Further it should be pointed out that the Charter of the Royal Dutch Co. requires that all its officers and directors be Dutch subjects. . . ."
Fretful, impatient, three Germans paced the Baldonnel Airdrome at Dublin, Ireland. Their plane was poised for flight, pointed westward, over the broad expanse of the Atlantic Ocean, toward America. Anxious, disappointed, obviously annoyed at delays, they waited for favorable weather reports, for they meant to be the first to fly...