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There are, it is true, some fraternities which form a chain of brotherhood linking certain men in Harvard with certain other men in distant institutions. And there are clubs of various sorts. To dwell on the small part played by most clubs, meaning clubs so titled and also fraternities, as...
*Germany and the U. S. are not represented. *First three letters of the French word panne, meaning "difficulty." The English flying term, "pancake," a verb describing a method of coming to earth with supporting surfaces of the ship flattened to retard the descent and prevent somersaulting, does not connote disaster...
To return, however, to Howells. In his time he was considered the foremost exponent of the realistic school of American literature. His is not the sordid realism of a Dreiser, but perhaps it is none the less realistic for that. We are not all degenerates and abnormals. Howells purpose was...
Substitute "work" for "duties" and the meaning gradually unfolds. Man does not want to labor; but, since he must, it is a kind of boon to guarantee him the certainty of work to do.
Miss Eloysa Levine, nine-year-old daughter of New York-Paris Flight-Backer Charles Levine, patriotically christened the Wright-Bellanca monoplane Columbia, (TIME, May 2) with a tepid bottle of ginger ale. Afterwards, laughing, she climbed into the Columbia with her friend Grace Jonas, Superintendent John Carisi and Pilot Clarence...