Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dawn waxed into day the new $100,000 biplane Hercules taxied from a hangar amid the roar of its three Jupiter engines. "Flying bores me," said Sir Samuel to e newsgatherer, "it is all the same after the first five minutes. I usually read or go to sleep...
Thus, with true British matter-of-fact farewells, Sir Samuel and his Air Lady entered the Hercules which vanished into the zenith five minutes later. Courageous, nonchalant, they had set out to inaugurate the 6,000-mile commercial airway from the Empire Capital via Cairo to Delhi, the Indian Capital...
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Bose Exposed. Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose of India has been causing scientific excitement with his assertions that plants have nervous systems, souls. A book giving a sympathetic account of the Hindu, his work and methods, sets forth: "The mysteries of nature are probed in Sir J. C. Bose's institute not by study of libraries or mechanical experiments, but primarily by communion with the unseen and unknown. Inspiration, imagination, intuition, vision?this is even a more romantic touch." All of which is ridiculous. "The passage from pseudo-research to the infantile fancies is an easy one."?Dr. Daniel...
...adjusted transmitting machines. Trained elocutionists might be hired to do the telephoning. President Coolidge and King George may be the first to exchange salutations by this new service, said a London despatch. President Walter Sherman Gifford of the Bell System declared he will be the first to talk-with Sir Alexander Roger, Chairman of the (British) Telephone Development Association and with Miss Evelyn Murray, Secretary of the British Post Office...