Word: without
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...flying speed to create pressure under its wings and would be able to land and to start from the roofs of buildings in the heart of a city. This implies the necessity of a motor strong enough to swing a propellor which would lift the machine by sheer strength without the help of the wings. It is in fact the application of the principle laid down by Orville Wright that a kitchen table could fly with sufficient engine power...
...this the peace they promised us? Is it for this that men died? Hardly. The people responsible for this state of affairs will find that what was endured without complaint in war-time will not be so readily accepted now that the war is supposed to be history. There are legal ways to prevent such misfortunes as have come upon us during the past year; if there are not, something is sadly wrong with the institutions we fought for. It is the business of our elected representatives to find a way out of our difficulties--not merely to start long...
...life, but they are united in that finest of all human bond which can come only to men who live their convictions. In Jimmy Caesar. Ervine paints three weaknesses which every man must fight; physical coward ice, life in dreams rather than in reality and a realization of fault without action to eradicate it. The play makes one weave into it one's own failings. That it why it is so strong...
...this method of conducting competitions each will overlap another by a few weeks. This gives an opportunity for the men with a month or more experience to be free in soliciting advertisements and to use their own initiative in their work without the necessity of being compelled to devote a major part of their time to unimportant detailed office work...
After telling something of his passion for games and sports, especially for tennis and salmon and trout fishing, he spoke of books, which he characterized as "the greatest of all recreations, for without the power of reading no man can be independent...