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...United States in all lines of commercial aeronautics. Records for speed and altitute fall before American army pilots, but still the fact remains that there is not a single commercial air line in this country. In Europe during the last six years progress in this direction has been swift and certain. Air lines with regular schedules now connect all the principal cities, while several competing routes join the more important capitals. On one line alone, that between London and Paris, fifty thuosand passengers have been carried since the armistice. With modern well-equipped planes the danger of accident is reduced...
...because the width of their hips makes their walk an inevitable, though sometimes a graceful, waddle, have not contributed much to this imbecilic form of experimentation. Their speed upon cinders, earth, boards, is pathetic; on ice, or in the water, they do better. Last week in Pittsburgh, an unusually swift woman, Elsie Muller of Manhattan, broke the woman's indoor record for a mile on ice. Her time was 3 minutes 19 3-5 seconds...
...unusually swift woman...
...Northrop, Chairman, Miss Dorothy Kay; R. S. Hodgkins, Miss Mildred Corey; C. H. Mowen, Miss Marian Cleveland; F. E. Donnelly, Miss Eleanor Cross; H. L. Swift, Miss Gertrude Owens; E. A. Harding, Miss Hortense Wetherbee...
...kind of criticism Mr. Newman is talking about cannot be done on a newspaper. For a critic is essentially a person who feels and thinks; and though feeling may, on occasion, be swift enough to catch the third edition, thought takes time. The weeklies might manage some real criticism, only they...