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Page 7
... aeroplane have abolished such things as inaccessible regions , and instead of regarding Around the World in Eighty Days ( first published in 1872 ) as an amazing feat of hurry , we can now regard a flight about the globe in fifteen or ...
... aeroplane have abolished such things as inaccessible regions , and instead of regarding Around the World in Eighty Days ( first published in 1872 ) as an amazing feat of hurry , we can now regard a flight about the globe in fifteen or ...
Page 10
... aeroplanes and sustained by fleets : of these new and still developing weapons , the tanks . Every bat- tle sees scores of these latter monsters put out of action . Now , even the primitive tank of 1917 cost , quite apart from the very ...
... aeroplanes and sustained by fleets : of these new and still developing weapons , the tanks . Every bat- tle sees scores of these latter monsters put out of action . Now , even the primitive tank of 1917 cost , quite apart from the very ...
Page 11
... aeroplane is not to be heard . Now , all this vast plant of aeroplane factories and instruction aerodromes must be kept up , once it has been started , war or no war , until war is practi- cally impossible . It may be argued , perhaps ...
... aeroplane is not to be heard . Now , all this vast plant of aeroplane factories and instruction aerodromes must be kept up , once it has been started , war or no war , until war is practi- cally impossible . It may be argued , perhaps ...
Page 21
... aeroplane , most people would reply ; possibly it may become so , but thus far a less picturesque invention has been of even greater influence — the motor - lorry . No one can go anywhere near the Western Front without realiz- ing that ...
... aeroplane , most people would reply ; possibly it may become so , but thus far a less picturesque invention has been of even greater influence — the motor - lorry . No one can go anywhere near the Western Front without realiz- ing that ...
Page 32
... aeroplane , acting as a stretcher - bearer , or digging a trench . And what , unless we can secure the peace of the world , will become of the potential scientific men of 1950 ? - Suppose it to be possible to carry on this present 32 ...
... aeroplane , acting as a stretcher - bearer , or digging a trench . And what , unless we can secure the peace of the world , will become of the potential scientific men of 1950 ? - Suppose it to be possible to carry on this present 32 ...
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