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...Simplest axiom of aviation: "It isn't the flying that's dangerous; it's the coming down." Seated on his father's lap in the cockpit, a 10-year-old could hold a plane on a fairly even course, nearly as easily as holding an automobile to a high way. But to land safely requires judgment and skill born of careful training and long practice. A miscalculation, a false move-and only fate decides whether the mishap shall be trivial or tragic...
...best dialog writers, Laurence Stallings and Charles MacArthur, has deliberately turned back to the old westerns as models in an attempt to reproduce the virtues that have reappeared only occasionally in pictures since the western became outmoded-speed, action, outdoor settings, and the suspense of the greatest and simplest of all plots: flight and pursuit. They have arranged this show from episodes taken from the life of Billy the Kid, famed oldtime western Robin Hood. The sheriff who idolizes the man he is chasing, the pure and lovely young girl who sticks to Billy through his dangers, the villains...
...continuous development. As Charles Darwin and his contemporaries removed the definite boundaries between man and the rest of the animal kingdom, so scientists have united animal life and plant life. Upon the animal-plant dividing line, organisms were discovered which never have been definitely classified, showing relationship to the simplest animal and yet having the chlorophyll (the green pigment in plants which in the presence of sunlight is responsible for photosynthesis, the union of carbon dioxide and water to form carbohydrates, plant food) of the plant. George Washington Crile, Cleveland bio-electrician (author: A Bipolar Theory of Living Processes...
...scientist, a No. i mathematician), his writing "is not addressed to highbrows, or to those who regard a practical problem merely as something to be talked about." Few deny the high morality of his lucid logic, which makes even his rational counsels of perfection sound like simplest common sense, but few could put these counsels of perfection into practice. At least his simplifications should be an antidote to confusion...
...spirit which would result from the feeling that the undergraduate body of the house was dining as a unit. What good, for instance, did the undemocratic display of starched laundry, of respectable citizenry, of distinguished faculty able citizenry, of distinguished faculty bring to the students? Obviously, by all the simplest canons of good taste, the whole house should, to achieve its avowed objects, have a unity of dress and eating level...