Word: worldly
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...Aeronautical Society will hold an exhibit of cinematograph pictures of aeroplanes in flight in Brattle Hall tonight at 8 o'clock. Motion views of the late Ralph Johnstone performing the "spiral glide," LeBlanc making a world's speed record of 68 miles an hour, Paulhan flying at Los Angeles, and other aviators will be shown. An admission fee of 50 cents will be charged to the public, but society members will be admitted free on showing their 1910-11 membership cards, which may be obtained from A. Sweetser '11, on payment of dues...
...Stokes graduated from Yale in 1896, and from the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, in 1900. In 1896-97 he traveled around the world, visiting Japan, China, Java, and India. He assumed his present position in 1903, and is also assistant minister of St. Paul's Church, New Haven...
...Aeronautical Society will conduct a cinematograph exhibit of aeroplanes in flight, in Brattle Hall next Monday evening at 8 o'clock. Motion views of the late Ralph Johnstone performing the "spiral glide" in the Wright machine. Le Blanc in a Bleriot monoplane making a world's speed record of 68 miles an hour, Paulhan flying at Los Angeles, and other flyers at recent aviation meets, will be shown. A public admission of 50 cents will be charged, and society members will be admitted free on showing their 1910-11 membership cards, which may be obtained from A. Sweetser...
...Here, again, I mention these men merely to illustrate by example just what I mean in what I have to say to you tonight. It is the easiest thing in the world for any man, sitting in his study, to write virtuous articles in which he declaims against the greed of people who are engaged in destroying our forests or wasting our water supply. But it is an exceedingly difficult thing practically to work out a scheme of conservation. And this was just exactly what Messrs. Garfield and Pinchot did. Their work was done not only with zeal and disinterestedness...
...enable very real progress to be made in bringing about the results which he desires to achieve. He is entitled to the hearty praise of all good citizens here, of all patriots and lovers of their country, no matter what that country may be, in every part of the world, for what he has just done. But remember always that the ultimate worth of this foundation which he has made will depend primarily upon the practical good sense, the judgment and the ability of the men who, administering the fund, or working under them, succeed in translating the theory into...