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...ring shapes of silvered steel. At the same time a new impetus was given to aviation by the relatively enormous power for weight of the atomic engine, ... ...uld our Great Departed Stand in the Rain?’ He learnt the rather ath- letic aviation of those days at the University grounds at 39 H G Wells Sydenham,... ...l qualification and a certain precocious cor- pulence that handicapped his aviation indicated the infan- try of the line as his sphere of training. Th... ...engineer- ing arm, concerned with motor transport, motor-bicycle scouting, aviation, and the like. 40 The World Set Free No first-class intelligence ... ...cely and less forensic; the Chinese still refused reso- lutely to become a military power, and maintained a small standing army upon the American mode... ... battery since the opening decades of the century. Barnet’s opinion of his military training was manifestly a poor one, his Modern State ideas dispose... ...ost charming description over the Fox Hills.’ All Barnet’s accounts of his military training were written in the same half-contemptuous, half-protesti... ...y the second, was an impressive display of the paraphernalia of scientific military organisation, as the first half of the twentieth cen- tury underst... ...istering energy, were flung high and far. Such was the crowning triumph of military science, the ultimate explosive that was to give the ‘decisive tou...

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... glove fingers tied up with thread and sent off by waggons along the great military road to the beleaguered fortress on the Indian frontier beyond the... ... in life that it isn’t really virile to reek of tobacco. I should have had military manoeuvres, training ships, aeroplane work, mountaineering and so ... ...d, the equally reasonable socialisation of individuals which is implied by military service is steadily and quite naturally and quite illogically oppo... ...Reform would have an im- mense popular appeal. They were also very keen on military organisation, and with a curious little martinet twist in their mi... ..., who had travelled and hunted; explorers, keen mo- torists, interested in aviation, active in army organisation. Good, brown-faced stuff they were, b...

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...p his time and distracted his attention. There was, as yet, no practicable aviation to beguile a young man of spirit, but there were times when Benham... ... incredible, with an outdoor cafe amidst flowers and creepers, a Hungarian military band, a rabble of promenaders like a stage chorus in gorgeous cost... ...a street corner, and there was some speaking. At first it seemed as though military men were using this platform, and then it was manifestly in posses... ... in possession of an excited knot of labour leaders with red rosettes. The military men had said their say and got down. They came close by Benham, pu...

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... newspapers interviewed him on prohibi- tion, Ireland, unemployment, naval aviation, the rate of exchange, tea-drinking versus whisky-drinking, the ps... ...e the Sunday School into four armies, depending on age. Every- body gets a military rank in his own army according to how many members he brings in, a... ...attaining financial success. The Sunday School adopted Babbitt’s system of military ranks. Quickened by this spiritual refreshment, it had a boom. It ...

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...these mouthy young- sters that hang around the pool-room need is universal military training. Make men of ‘em.” Mrs. Dyer removed the new schoolbuildi... ...’m to go to Washing- ton as a dollar a year man for the government, in the aviation motor section, and tell them how much I don’t know about carbureto... ...want to be un- just to him. I believe he took his physical examination for military service. Got varicose veins—not bad, but enough to disqualify him....

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...insistent upon the way in which all Venetia was being opened up by the new military roads; there has been scarcely a new road made in Venetia since Na... ...Wells war zone, and it is doubtful how far the sanitary precautions of the military authorities avails against a considerable propa- ganda of disease.... ...General Bompiani, whose writings are well known to all English students of military matters, showed me the Gibraltar he is making of a great mountain ... ...conflict with the immov- able object. And the outcome has been the biggest military mine in all history. The business began in January, 1916, with sur... ...he blunder of the T rentino offensive. It does not need the equipment of a military expert, it de- mands only quite ordinary knowledge and average int... ...me to see me upon some copyright matter in 1912. He broached the view that aviation would destroy de- mocracy, because he said only aristocrats make a... ...d that none but the French could hope to beat it. On the Western front the aviation has been screwed up to a very much higher level than on the Ital- ... ...heavy traffic, sometimes the dusty road is clear ahead, now we pass a vast aviation camp, now a park of waiting field guns, now an encampment of caval...

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...s reached: the mystery of the individual. Will England presently produce a military genius? or what will Mr. Belloc say the day after to-morrow? The m... ... Brighton before 1910, which is still a dream, but he doubted if effective military aviation or aerial fighting would be possible before 1950, which i... ... before 1910, which is still a dream, but he doubted if effective military aviation or aerial fighting would be possible before 1950, which is a miss ... ...t in 1908, when flying was still almost incredible, M. Ader published his “Aviation Militaire.” Well, that was eight years ago, and men have been figh... ...e by the late Mr. W.T. Stead. It does not seem to have reached the British military authorities, nor was it published in England with an instruc- tive... ...llous maxims from the dark ages that seem to form the chief reading of our military experts, said that the army that entrenches is a defeated army. Th... ...d up to the hilt. The world was entrenched at his feet. By May the lagging military science of the British had so far overtaken events as to realise t...

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... street.” “Here’s the records, sergeant,” said Fuselli stiffly in his best military manner. “Oh thanks … . There’s nothing else I want,” said the ser-... ...d a heap of money, them guys,” said the man who was with him, a private in Aviation. “Let’s go have a drink.” Fuselli was silent and absorbed in his t... ...hey didn’t mind having naked women about, did they?” said the private in Aviation, a morose foul-mouthed little man who had been in the woolen busi... ...on the asphalt. “Let’s go have another drink,” said the private in Aviation. Fuselli looked at his watch; they had hours before train time. A ... ... some other girl. “Must have been immoral, them guys,” said the private in Aviation, leering at the girl in the dirty blouse. Fuselli remembered a rev... ...dismiss the company,” said the lieutenant bring- ing his voice back to its military tone. “Companee dis-missed!” said out the sergeant jovially. In gr... ...e Chavannes, but the walls had been so chipped and soiled by five years of military occupation that they were barely recognisable. Only a few bits of ... ... stridency of traffic. From far away he heard for a few moments notes of a military band playing a march. The shadows of the trees were faint blue-gre... ... We’re glad to re- lease men … . We’re glad to release any man with a good military record … . Williams!” “Yes, sir.” A sergeant came over from a smal...

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... he ig- nored this little digression, and wanted to know: Why not American aviation?—to which I answered: “Ah, but as my friend has so often said to m... ...rned a corner and somehow got sight of a sort of square near the prison. A military band was executing itself to the stolid delight of some handfuls o... ...wrote in proud letters above: “Punished for desertion. Six years of prison—military degradation.” It must have been five o’clock. Steps. A vast clutte... ...mposing a great letter or series of great letters to the civil and I guess military authori- ties of Orne on the subject of the injustice done to the ...

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... I put a query) of the plaintiff nation in the defendant state, aggressive military or naval preparation, disorder spreading over the frontier, trespa... ...fact, if it is to be a working reality, have power to define and limit the military and naval and aerial equipment of every country in the world. This... ...riction of state forces. It must have power and freedom to investigate the military and naval and aerial establishments of all its constituent powers.... ... of the League presupposes that it and it alone is to have and to exercise military force. Any other belligerency or prepara- tion or incitement to be... ... armament it chooses to adopt. Since 1871 France, we say, has been free in military matters. What has been the value of that freedom? The truth is, sh... ...s atlas and consider one or two propositions. And, first, let him think of aviation. I can assure him, because upon this matter I have some special kn...

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...at. The second is that, in spite of our fleet, this is no longer, from the military point of view, an inaccessible island. So long as one had to consi... ... to our happy-go-lucky Army that it was possible to 9 H. G . Wells make a military use of barbed wire or construct a trench to defy shrapnel. Suppose... ...e sudden downfalls are the least pleasant and most dangerous experience in aviation. They exact a tiring vigilance. Over lake or sea, in sunshine, wit... ...d torpedoes and destroyers and airships and submarines. And when I come to military matters my persuasion that things are not all right, that our curr... ...ght us in blood and bitter- ness the obvious fact that barbed wire had its military uses, and over the high passes on the way to Lhassa (though, luck-... ...ial problems of contemporary war. If they have, then it does not show. Our military imagination is half-way back to bows and arrows. The other day I s... ... project as dream-like to- day as electric lighting, electric traction, or aviation would have been in the year 1850. In 1850 a man reasonably con- ve... ...reater supply of able educated men, versa- tile men capable of engines, of aviation, of invention, of lead- ing and initiative. We need more laborator... ...and a great array of new colleges, a much readier access to instruction in aviation and military and naval practice. And if we are to have national se...

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...ion— ...in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation Administration 82 3.4 . . . and in the Intelligence Community ... ... border control, the flow of assets to terrorist organizations, commercial aviation, the role of congressional oversight and resource allocation, and ... ... plebiscite, and equal rights for women. It makes no dis- tinction between military and civilian targets. Collateral damage is not in its lexicon. We ... ...e learned that the institutions charged with protecting our borders, civil aviation, and national security did not understand how grave this threat co... ...ified item in his back pocket, clipped to its rim. 15 When the local civil aviation security office of the Federal Aviation Admin- istration (FAA) lat... ...tly behind Lewin. Lewin had served four years as an officer in the Israeli military. He may have made an attempt to stop the hijackers in front of him... ...mately 530 miles per hour. 61 All on board, as well as many civil- ian and military personnel in the building, were killed. The Battle for United 93 A... ...ijacking that involved U.S. air traf- fic controllers, FAA management, and military coordination had occurred in 1993. 90 In order to understand how t... ...f a hijacking.As they existed on 9/11, the protocols for the FAA to obtain military assistance from NORAD required multiple levels of notification and...