Word: tins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reached the astonishing height of 350 feet, to the present days, when parachutists can drop safely from an altitude of 21,000 feet, and gasoline can be transferred from one plane to the other high above the earth. How could Farman, who, in 1903 filled his tank with a tin-can, have realized that twenty years later 2000 gallons of gasoline would be the average lead of an army air-plane...
...most striking gain in our exports to Latin America was in automobiles; other large items were naval stores, cotton hosiery, building lumber, petroleum, and its products, tin plate, wire nails, machines for sewing, printing, adding and harvesting. Motion picture films are also on the increase among our exports...
...result of work during the last three or four years by the Peabody Museum's representatives in the field. Due to the inroads of civilization in the wilder parts of the continent this material is fast disappearing. For example, as Mr. Willoughby pointed out, when a native secures a tin can of any kind from white men, it is likely to replace the utensil that he formerly fashioned from wood or metal for himself...
...DANCE OF LIFE ? Havelock Ellis ? Houghton Miff tin ($4.00). Havelock Ellis, psychologist and essayist, called "the most civilized Englishman living today," writes his philosophic view of life and the living thereof. "It has always been difficult," he begins, "for Man to realize that his life is all an art." In the development of his thesis?which is considerably more an attitude than a theory?Mr. Ellis has written what will probably stannd as one of the most significant achievements of contemporary thought...
Books, we are credibly informed, have souls. So, in all probability, have houses, towns, vegetables, hair nets, tin cans. In the case of books, however, the situation becomes more acute. The soul of a book tends rather to force itself upon the reader. One is led to wonder what other qualities noble or ignoble the unassuming volumes on our shelves share with the existing lords of creation. Have books feelings, sensibilities, all those little emotional refinements which make of life so deli cate an adventure? No one wants to hurt a book's feelings. Are they sensitive? Have they their...