St. Nicholas, Volume 46, Issue 12Scribner & Company, 1919 |
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Page 1055
... miles from New York . First prize winner competitive military drill , 71st Armory , N. Y. ( 1000 boys took part . ) " Your school looks so homelike . " Thus visitors express their first impression when in search of a suitable school ...
... miles from New York . First prize winner competitive military drill , 71st Armory , N. Y. ( 1000 boys took part . ) " Your school looks so homelike . " Thus visitors express their first impression when in search of a suitable school ...
Page 1070
... miles is covered in less than three hours . The fare of a shilling a mile , or $ 62.50 for the trip , does not seem high , considering the circumstances . The car of the aeroplane is furnished with upholstered chairs and is decorated ...
... miles is covered in less than three hours . The fare of a shilling a mile , or $ 62.50 for the trip , does not seem high , considering the circumstances . The car of the aeroplane is furnished with upholstered chairs and is decorated ...
Page 1071
... miles an hour and can travel for ten thousand miles , or over eight days , without coming down . The largest of these airships are upward of a thousand feet in length . Regular course . dinners are served on board , and the passen- gers ...
... miles an hour and can travel for ten thousand miles , or over eight days , without coming down . The largest of these airships are upward of a thousand feet in length . Regular course . dinners are served on board , and the passen- gers ...
Page 1072
... miles of the earth's surface of which we know very little and 8,000,000 square miles which have not been surveyed and mapped . It would take two hundred years at the present rate of ex- ploration to complete the work , whereas the ...
... miles of the earth's surface of which we know very little and 8,000,000 square miles which have not been surveyed and mapped . It would take two hundred years at the present rate of ex- ploration to complete the work , whereas the ...
Page 1073
... miles of telegraph wires and high - power electric transmission lines be regu- larly inspected , and these often extend over rough and unsettled country , far from roads . An experienced observer , flying rather low and racing along ...
... miles of telegraph wires and high - power electric transmission lines be regu- larly inspected , and these often extend over rough and unsettled country , far from roads . An experienced observer , flying rather low and racing along ...
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