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...Colonel Stoddart-Scott (Conservative) : comfortable...
...hour after hour, as she crossed the Atlantic, the Hughes plane's KHBRC signal thundered down the ship's wake into Ground Radio Chief Charles Perrine's receivers at Flushing, L. I. In the plane, Radio Engineer Richard R. Stoddart adjusted the length of the trailing antenna, controlled at will the direction of the radio beam he was transmitting. He had achieved in the design of his transmitter an efficiency formerly impossible in airplane radio...
Thomas L. Thurlow, lent for the flight by the U. S. Army; Flight Engineer Edward Lund, and Radio Engineer Richard Stoddart. Flier Hughes was guided by the most reassuring set of flying gadgets ever packed into a private airplane. Kept on his course by a homing radio compass, another taking bearings from ships at sea, and a new periscopic drift indicator perfected by Lieutenant Thurlow, Flier Hughes let a gyro-pilot do most of the flying, chatted every half hour or so over a powerful radio transmitter to a base at the New York World's Fair that...
...Dean Stoddart's plan would therefore be the very death of these liberal colleges which he seeks to rescue. Its whole fault lies in that he goes too far. It has been amply demonstrated by the success of several progressive institutions that what is really needed is not so much a general smattering of all knowledge as an emphasis on one special field accompanied by an understanding of its relation to other important subjects. Opinions may differ as to the efficacy of Dean Stoddart's plan but common sense would certainly dictate that a system similar to that which...