Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...determining an aviation policy for the United States Government, what should be the relation between the military and civilian services? "Our answer to this question is that they should remain distinctly separate. "The peacetime activities of the United States have never been governed by military considerations. To organize its peacetime activi- ties, or what it is thought may ultimately be one large branch of them, under military control or on a military basis would be to make the same mistake which, properly or improperly, the world believes Prussia to have made in the last generation. The union of civil...
...answer to this question...
...need not discuss the question whether his 'Concerto in F' is good jazz or not; that seems to us relatively unimportant beside the question whether it is good music or not; and we think it is only fairish music-conventional, trite, at its worst a little dull...
...Until he was 29 he lived the conventional life of an Eastern aristocrat of his period. His world was a world of sunlight sleeping in ageless gardens; his occupations hunting and lovemaking; he passed from gratification to gratification, looking for the answer to a question he had never phrased. Sometimes, when he traveled over his estates, he saw unpleasant things-a man dreadfully undone by age, a body scabrous with disease, a corpse putrefying in a field-but Channa, his charioteer, had a comment which illumined all such offensive testimonials of hu- man mortality. "That is the way of life...
...present surplus stock of cars in the hands of dealers is estimated at 500,000, although some students of the industry question the accuracy of this figure. The total number of motor vehicles in use in the U. S. today is more than...