Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hrdlička, who a fortnight ago predicted intellectualized human hobgoblins of the future (TIME, April 29), and last week declined to dissect his dead friend (see below), eyed his Academy colleagues and told them that they were on the average more robust and healthy than the average U. S. citizen, that their heads as well as their minds were bigger...
...see no reason why I shouldn't fly. If a pilot has been properly trained, he is just as good when he is old as when he was young. Some of the best pilots in the service today are getting along in years...
...chief obstacles he saw to the perfection of all-air transportation for passengers from coast-to-coast: 1) The fog hazard, which he expects to see solved by radio; 2) The problem of safe night flying with passengers. Said he of the latter: "I don't think we are ready for such a thing at present. It shouldn't be carried out until we have in this country a reliable four-engined job. The details of such a plane, I believe, we should leave to the aeronautical engineers. I have no definite ideas as to the arrangement...
...Debated a farm relief bill containing the export debenture plan (see...
...Adopted a resolution authorizing that $4,250,000 be spent to combat the Mediterranean fruit fly in Florida (see...