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...countries have been directed to improving the machine, in designs of plane and efficiency of engines. Would that a small portion of the time and money thus spent in developing the machine had been spent in improving our knowledge of the medium in which the machine, like man, must function. The importance of a knowledge of the structure of the air is becoming more evident as long distance flights increase in number...
...test brings up at once the question whether an examination in English literature is likely to be a test of the brain in a proper sense of the word. Memory is a mental function, and it is more or less inevitable that the student with the best memory is going to show the best answers to such a test. The young men, that is to say, did their bust not so much to tell what they thought or to show how they could think as to tell about thinkers and show that they remembered of what thinkers have thought. That...
...task is to bring about full cohesion and co-operation between the primary agencies of enforcement. The units of an army brigade . . . can't function as such until bound together...
Last week the same man, become a politic business man, said: "It will be my purpose and the function of the institute to provide for intelligent individual business management, operating independently, an opportunity to do business at a fair profit and on a basis of wholesome competition, and to see that the industry conducts itself entirely within the law, eliminates unfair trade practices and provides a maximum of service both to the industry and to the public...
...chapel whose doors he had just opened with a scriptural adjuration. "Beauty," he said to them, "is not an empty form. It has its content both of thought and feeling. It is an attribute of God himself . . . We believe that this chapel will fulfill another function than that of corporate worship, that it will prove to be for many a house of refuge in time of trouble and distress...