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...mosquitoes and sandfleas and flew their gliders off a high dune called Kill Devil Hill. They sewed the sateen for the wings on a neighbor's sewing machine. They figured out a way to warp the wings to keep the plane on an even keel (the principle of present-day ailerons). They built the first wind tunnel out of an old starch box, tried hundreds of different wing shapes, found that practically all published data on flying were useless...
...modern laymen recognize. Author McNeill calls Hooker's Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity "the crowning literary expression of the English Reformation. . . ." McNeill credits 16th Century Theologian Hooker with being the "primary inspirer" of the rationalistic approach to theology, whose views on church government might well be useful to the present-day church-unity movement: "It is far from impossible that the future reunion of the churches of the Reformation . . " will follow the lines of Hooker's broad-church episcopal theory. . . .But even if he should fail to win us to agreement with him, the reading of his pages cannot...
Phillips is perhaps the last advocate of that vanished conservative party, the Federalists. He believes that present-day attempts "to make Jefferson's reputation great by inflation may burst the bubble," and speaks of the explosive honesty of John Adams, the "underhanded tact and hypocrisy" of Jefferson, the "subtle and persistent venom" of John Quincy Adams. Such blunt historical editorializing has scarcely been seen in the U.S. since the days he writes about. But his partisanship for the Federalists is no greater than that of Morison and Brooks and Arthur Schlesinger for Thomas Jefferson and the Democrats...
...Council of Ulema (sages) of Cairo's Al-Azhar University, which forms the spiritual leadership of present-day Islam, formally proclaimed the Jihad (holy war). "Know that Jihad has now become the duty for everyone which he should fulfill either through his own person or through his money," said the Ulema. "Anybody failing to fulfill such duty will be punished by Allah. Allah promised to give Paradise to Moslems who [participate]. . . . Let the echo of your voice carry from East to West the lovely word which is dear to the faithful-Jihad, Jihad, Jihad-and Allah be with...
...last formal game before some trouble brewing in Europe and the Far East called a momentary halt to the series, an under-dog Yale squad snatched a 7 to 3 win from the Crimson on a bleak rainy Saturday, scoring an upset that many present-day students still remember. Don Richards, later killed in the Normandy campaign, returned a punt 60 yards for a touchdown, only to have the score called back because of an offside penalty...