Word: two
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Two chief obstacles he saw to the perfection of all-air transportation for passengers from coast-to-coast: 1) The fog hazard, which he expects to see solved by radio; 2) The problem of safe night flying with passengers. Said he of the latter: "I don't think we are ready for such a thing at present. It shouldn't be carried out until we have in this country a reliable four-engined job. The details of such a plane, I believe, we should leave to the aeronautical engineers. I have no definite ideas as to the arrangement...
Passage to India. Squadron Leader A. G. Jones-Williams and Flight Lieut. N. H. Jenkins of the British Royal Air Force taxied a huge Fairey-Napier monoplane weighing six and one-half tons and carrying 1,000 gallons of gasoline down a special two-mile runway at Cranwell Airdrome in Lincolnshire. They took the air and headed in a southeasterly direction. Twenty-seven hours later they were seen over Bagdad, still going. Forty-eight hours out they passed over Karachi in India with still 1,170 mi. to go to their destination, Bangalore. Two hours later the great plane reappeared...
Robert Hutchins went, aged 16, to Oberlin College, near Cleveland, for two years. Then War called him to France, where he drove an ambulance, and to Italy, where for bravery he received the Croce di Guerra. Peace called him back to the U. S. and Yale. He worked his way through by organizing a Co-operative Tutoring Bureau. He was graduated with an A. B. in 1921, entered the Law School for a four-year course. Success and Dr. Angell had already marked him. He succeeded Anson Phelps Stokes, now canon of Washington Cathedral, as Secretary of the University. From...
...defense placed Mrs. Dennett on the stand. She was allowed to answer three or four minor questions, concerning the fact that she had written the pamphlet 15 years ago for her two sons, then 13 and 9. The attorneys summed up and the prosecutor said: "It may be true that to the pure all things are pure, and that we have to go down to the gutter for our information, but this woman is trying to drag us down into the sewer...
...female genital apparatus in main detail, with illustrations by Dr. Robert Latou Dickinson, gynecologist and eugenist. She told of ovulation. She described insemination. She wrote: "Don't let any one drag you into nasty talk or thought about sex. It is not a nasty subject." She mentioned the two terrible sexual diseases. She concluded with: "The physical side of love is the intensely intimate part of it, and the most critical for happiness...