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...planes are in line, at even speed and 15 to 25 feet apart, the upper one drops a rubber hose. As the hose whips about, a man below catches its free end and inserts it into his fuel tank. Thus the two planes are connected by a sort of umbilical cord through which gasoline flows. In the Question Mark experiment, the feed hose would sometimes break loose, the men below would get drenched. But drenching was an incident which did not invalidate this refueling method. Food and messages were also passed between the two planes, a rope substituting...
...Wells, as to many another social idealist, man's future means a great deal. But Wells is prophet as well as wisher. Years ago, so he claims, he took a joyride in an aeroplane and prophesied Lindbergh. "This book" he declares, with some slight inaccuracy, "is the same sort of thing. . . . Can form, story and music be brought together to present the conditions and issues of the abolition of war in a beautiful, vigorous and moving work of art, which will be well within the grasp and understanding of the ordinary film audience?" This book seeks to prove that...
...What is so terrible about it?" expostulates her mother. "The shore is wide enough for us to pass by her. . . . You are already jealous of Madame Grill. But, my dear Bella, your husband is after all not a man of that sort. . . . You are the Baroness von Buttlär and I am the widow of General von Palikow. Well, doesn't that mean that we are two fortresses to which people who don't belong to us have no entree? . . . We simply issue a decree?and Madame Grill ceases to exist...
...next problem is, what sort should this guidance be? In the first place, in the opinion of this committee, vocational guidance should aim to be human rather than scientific. It is a problem in helping young men find themselves, to be answered by sympathetic human contact rather than by statistical analysis. There can be no single method and no sure-five system. The committee is strongly opposed to any idea of routine measurement of capacity or pigeon-holing of personality by any chart system whatsoever. Intelligence tests should be taken as indicating perhaps the possession of capacity but never...
...Preface to Morals he analyzes that debacle in religion, in politics, art. He demonstrates that the humanism of the disillusioned sages tallies with modern psychology; he predicates the elastic sort of humanism that will fit a changing...