Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be able to land on a field we cannot see. Fog flying is hazardous now, but I expect that within the next few years we will be able to fly through almost any kind of weather. So that conditions being somewhere near equal in regard to fog, I think distance from the city would be of primary importance...
Publisher William Randolph Hearst, as everyone knows, possesses 28 U. S. newspapers. His public is composed, he slogans, of 20 million people?"People Who Think." Whenever he is moved to expound his personal views in public, all he needs to do is notify his nearest editor and the land will soon be flooded with pungent paragraphs over the cramped, irregular, sharp-slanting Hearst signature...
...Blank Cartridge." The subject matter of the Hearst statement seemed to explain why its author had hitched his wagon to the distinguished Kansas City Star. Publisher Hearst felt deeply that "We Need Laws We Can Respect." He also realized that people, whether they think or not, are most likely to respect public statements when they read them in a newspaper they can respect. Mr. Hearst's own press is historically, incurably "yellow...
...clenched my hands and tried not to scream. ... I opened my eyes, and I saw. It was his [the doctor's] face. Think of it! Two eyes and a nose and a mouth, just as I had felt them all these years...
...stand at the window and I see automobiles and the wheels turning and smoke coming out of chimneys and people walking around, and I can't believe it. Think of seeing my son. Do you know, the nurses had to tell me what things were. I would ask: 'What is the long, pointed thing out there?' and the nurse would say, 'That's a church steeple.' I've been going to church all my life and didn't know a church steeple...