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...massing in the sky, he needs no plebiscite to tell him that ladies in green hats had better come in out of the rain. In Man's Mortality there is not one perfumed whiff of Mayfair or Park Avenue; like a young H. G. Wells and without a backward glance Author Arlen has soared into the world of the future...
...place of wings there are freely spinning horizontal rotors 14 in. long and 2 in. in diameter. The rotor is composed of two semicircular vanes on an axis-in cross section shaped like the letter S. As the plane moves forward, air pressure causes the rotor to revolve backward. That action, combined with the forward movement, produces low pressure on top of the rotor, increased pressure (lift) on the bottom. If the motor should quit the rotor continues to spin in descent, the lift force stretching the plane's course into a long glide. Unconsciously Designer Hatlestad had employed...
...truant officer to fetch [the pupil] and police him, a dietitian to save him from scurvy and pellagra, a surgeon to remove his adenoids and tonsils, a dentist to plug his teeth, and a psychologist to chart the movements, if any, of his IQ . . . multitudes of special classes for backward pupils . . . struggling with the uneducable ... ten or twelve years of intensive tuition (or, at all events, of pleasant recreation) for downright idiots...
...claiming that the high-school graduate of today is, if anything, more stereotyped and dull than his predecessor. If this is true, or even partly true, the search for the leak must be elsewhere. Mr. Mencken finds this cause of waste in the growth of special classes for the backward and in the large number of various sorts of experts which infest every modern school. Actually, there is another and even worse cause for growing expenditures: this is the movement towards a large number of courses in every conceivable subject. This innovation has had two evil effects: it has raised...
...believe you will have one. I have no doubt you will find plenty of news in the next twelve months and that, after all, is the main object in your lives." ¶"The proposals to stop the reorganization of government functions which I have made is a backward step," exclaimed President Hoover when he discovered Congressional Democrats were planning to void his shuffle of 58 executive agencies and then give President Roosevelt even larger powers to make similar changes. "The same opposition has now arisen which has defeated every effort at reorganization for 25 years. . . . The proposal to transfer...