Word: remains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Similarly Postmaster General Harry S. New. Last week he called for purchasers' bids on the two airmail routes which remain under Federal ownership-the 2,665-mile stretch from New York to San Francisco, the 796-mile overnight route between Chicago and New York. It had never been the Government's intention to conduct these services permanently. Fourteen other routes, totaling 5,553 miles one way, had been opened by the Government and all turned over to private contractors. Now Mr. New judged commercial aviation to be strong enough, and the feasibility, the practicability of airmail carrying...
...presence of women he would often lose his simple forthright manner and turn himself into a pompous and mouthy sentimentalist-or else remain spellbound and silent...
...there waited also for inspection the superb Kaiserliche-Königliche Hofburg (Imperial and Royal Palace), the onetime residence of Franz-Josef, and all the now decadent chateaux and pleasure resorts of the former Austro-Hungarian nobility. The night sparkle of Vienna is gone but its substantial daylight glories remain...
Simultaneously Prince Chichibu, second son of the Mikado of Japan, matriculated at Oxford. His Royal Highness announced that he will remain for but one year, will confine his studies to literature, history, political science and economics...
...20th Century discoveries-radio activity, the inter-convertability of matter and light, the corpuscular theory of radiant energy, etc. Next I showed that while there is always 'something new under the sun' yet our new truths only amplify older ones and many of the older truths remain eternal-for example, Newton is included by Einstein, and Christ's teachings are still unsurpassed. And finally, I showed that the further science pushes its horizons, the humbler scientists become, their thought having undergone a long evolution similar to the growth of religious thought from tribal superstition, through literal anthropomorphism...