Word: postman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Idle Postman...
...certain as the law of gravitation, and that is, that he will "reap what he has sown" in an effort to poison the minds of untrained thinkers?especially the young. Again the publishers' "ad" is unethical in that it says, "Send no money in advance," but when the postman comes $2.60 must be dug up in a hurry. This word is written in a kindly spirit...
...Paris rural postman from the excessively mountainous Department of Drôme succeeded last week in interesting M. Paul Painlevé, thrice Premier of France and now Minister of War, in a model of a unique new type of airplane...
...Postman M. Ernest Dole described his invention as follows: "My secrets I will confide only to M. Painlevé. But I have here a photograph of my model in flight. . . . Observe that it has wings. They are used only to stabilize and control it, as it ascends from or returns to the earth. ... It flies not by means of a propeller, but by a device which sucks in the air and then expels it explosively with a force much greater than the 'wind' created by a propeller. . . . Thus there is no 'motor,' no 'engine,' only the device which creates by explosive...
Aeronautical experts opined that Postman Dole had been well advised to seek out M. Painlevé with his model. Statesman Painlevé is known among the little circle of the mathematically learned as a veritable genius for abstruse calculation, and he has long employed that faculty in toying with the difficult problems of aerodynamics. Intrepid, he was the first Frenchman to fly with Wilbur Wright. Since the early days of that adventure he has kept a firm grip upon both the practice and the theory of aeronautics...