Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This exhibit is being held to enable the students to understand the world-wide development of commerical aviation, as well as some of the problems involved. It will aid in the visualization of the tremendous strides taken by aeronautics in this country and abroad. Included in it are all sorts of air maps, charts, posters, photographs, and printed material showing the activities of the air mail, air transport companies, and the aeronautics division of the Department of Commerce...
...might be a little aggravating at times, just like most people who are nervous and high strung. But when you have learned how to understand her incisive way of speaking and her determined manner of saying 'No, I won't stand for that,' or her way of declaring 'That won't do at all,' you will find Mrs. Hammonds is a real adjunct to the efficiency of this office...
...display solid grounds for such an understanding Sir Esme sketched lengthily and wittily what he deemed the superficial differences but fundamental similarities between Britons and citizens of the U. S. Concluded he: "Whatever the differences between Americans and English may be-and they are many-they have at least in common these two great ideals in government that were brought here by the Pilgrim Fathers and the other early English settlers, because they have inherited them in the blood: 'No taxation without representation'; and, 'No revolution against the declared will of the majority.' To that extent...
...have tried, to analyze the proceedings as they have been presented. We have heard individuals from the Pacific coast and we have heard individuals from the Atlantic coast express their opinions on the writings of other individuals. But I can't understand why real evidence upon the charges is not presented. I am willing to listen to the long-haired patriot from the Pacific coast. I am willing to listen to the witnesses from the Atlantic coast but [his voice rose with anger] I am not willing to listen to Mr. Russell, a Socialist ['prosecution' witness testifying...
...reasoning, suspicion, pompous illusions and gross fears, but never anything that can be laid alongside a fact or will stand a shot of common sense. Yet this unreason infests the professorial mind, and the men who are given their responsible positions to teach youth to meet life prepared to understand it, deal with it and make the best of it, send their pupils after moonbeams, chimera and the blood-sweating behemoth...