Word: questioningly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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What the Royal Family "costs" no man knows, many question, argue. The annual revenue of the Crown lands (1928-29, ?1,210,000 net) no longer goes to His Majesty but (since 1760) to the exchequer. Simultaneously Parliament grants and the exchequer pays to Their Majesties an annual civil list of ?470,000, to the rest of the Royal Family...
...natural question was: If such a recording existed, why was it not released until four years after Valentino's death...
...question then comes up as to whether those in charge of the administration of the House Plan, the House masters and tutors, have undertaken their jobs with the above general idea in their minds. There is certainly room for more than a little doubt in answering this problem. Some of the House masters, either through an exaggerated conception of the importance of their own position or through a false interpretation of the scheme in general seem in danger of falling into the error of trying to force the benefits of the plan as they see them down the throats...
...important thing now is what do YOU mean by the "House Plan"? It is important that undergraduates give this question their serious consideration. Those in charge may or may not be on the wrong track, but it is absolutely certain that in the long run a system which is not in accord with the peculiar development of Harvard can never be forced on an alert and thinking student body. "The House Plan" is as yet just a name. What it will be in fact depends upon the college itself, and most of all on the incoming Freshman classes. The class...
...fuel load was 425 gal., his average speed 107 m. p. h. An earth inductor compass, a magnetic compass on the conventional instrument board and maps were his navigating facilities. The westward flight, as every layman knows, is immeasurably more difficult largely because of prevailing headwinds. The Question Mark, radio equipped, had a 650 h. p. Hispano-Suiza motor and a top speed close to 160 m. p. h. Its instrument panel, with more than 30 dials including the invaluable "artificial horizon," offered practically every known aid to navigation. Yet even with weather conditions unusually good, with tail winds...