Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opinion, the proper development of aviation has been greatly hindered by the wrong sort of newspaper publicity. In America business men have been discouraged form backing commercial air-lines by the frequent disasters occurring to airplanes, and by the impractical expensive nature of the planes now extant. The fact is that aviation has been prematurely exploited. Airplanes are not yet safe; they are not as yet commercially practicable. It is not sensible to expect that they should...
...Many people are discouraged at present because America seems backward in developing aviation. They must remember that European aerial progress is largely due to government subsidies. In my mind, this sort of progress is artificial and highly undesirable. It is true America is going slowly but she is also building a sound basis for a truly national industry. When the business men of the United States start manufacturing, they will not need a helping hand from the government. Our aerial evolution is slow but thorough...
...believers in the innocence of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti could have asked no more than that all the pleas, objections, exceptions or motions of any sort in behalf of these convicted men should be heard, considered and duly weighed by the tribunals of this Commonwealth. These pleas or motions have been so heard, or are yet to be heard. The proceedings in the case have occupied our courts in one way or another since Sept. 14, 1920, when the Grand Jury of Norfolk County returned indictments charging the two men with the murder of Allesando Beradelli and Frederick...
...state that the status quo is not exactly what it should be, it is a trifle more difficult to improve the status quo, Yet there is no reason to believe that some one person or group of persons who have been thinking for some time on just this sort of thing, cannot outline a plan, which, it not in itself the be all and end all, can by its suggestiveness initiate thinking which will produce such a plan...
...fellows, the chapter on "urnings" and "uranism" -in which the four long letters, invented or not, are as remarkable as anything that will be published this year-let the reader attend a chapter which may mightily shock and profit parents teachers, preachers, public officials and alleged adults of every sort- the chapter on "Adult Infantilism In a Nation, In an Individual, In Literature...