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Excerpt: The War in the Air by H. G. Wells.

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... Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The War in the Air by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells The War in the Air by H. G. Wells [Herbert George Wells] PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A A... ...nt re-glazing. In the end Grubb and Smallways were put to the expense of a strategic nocturnal removal to another position. It was a position they had... ...“Don’t throw water on it!” he said—“don’t throw water on it!” He displayed commanding presence of mind. He became cap- tain of the occasion. Others we... ...r navy. We have selected a certain point—it is at present ze secret of our commanders—which we shall seize, and zen 87 H G Wells we shall establish a... ...ing of guns and tonnage, of ships and their build and powers and speed, of strategic points, and bases of operation. A certain shyness that reduced hi... ...he City Hall had awakened and was conferring by telephone with the Federal command and taking measures for defence. The City Hall was asking for airsh... ...arge scale map of Goat Island marked with red and blue lines to show these strategic movements would no doubt have displayed much interlacing, but as ...

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...seen narrowing in; the Ticino and the Sesia waters, nearest, quiver on the air like sleepy lakes; the plain is engulphed up to the high ridges of the ... ... the north to-morrow, think you?” The mountaineer sent a quick gaze up the air, as to descry signs. “Who knows?” Agostino continued, though not playin... ...esponse from the mountaineer, who sounded his voice wide in the keen upper air. “There’s the heart of that fellow!” said Agostino. “He has but one ide... ...young fellow, in whom you confide so much, speaks for his country. We poor units must not be discordant. No! Individual opinion, my Carlo, is discord ... ...ntellect, acting throughout all its machin- ery, and having all under full command: an orbed mind, supplying its own philosophy, and arriving at the s... ...d presented himself in something of a military posture of attention to her commands. These were that he should take the poor brute to water, and then ... ...ation addressed to himself from within. “Stand up straight!” the soldier’s command was uttered. Even Beppo was amazed to see that the man had lost the... ...Austrian argument 179 George Meredith that the plains of Lombardy are the strategic defensive lines of the Alps.) Agostino, pursued by his terror of ...

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...color crowds, who cheer it, and reverently make way for it: the very Queen commands at lowest re- spectful silence, regretful avoidance. (Arthur Young... ...ay we of Boys? Beautifullest Hebes; the loveliest of Paris, in their light air-robes, with riband-girdle of tricolor, are there; shovelling and wheeli... ...will throw light on many things. For it is with Bouille as with all French Commanding Officers; only in a more emphatic degree. The grand Na- tional F... ...er than ever. Let us look at Bouille, and see how. Bouille for the present commands in the Garrison of Metz, and far and wide over the East and North;... ...thunderous belch of grapeshot, blast some fifty of Bouille’s vanguard into air! Fatal! That sputter of the first musket-shot has kindled such a cannon... ...iving (if it be not the Presiding Genius of it, Prince of the Power of the Air) has now any chance to know. Camille’s conjecture is the likeliest: tha... ...nch blood. Some ‘Twelve unfortunately shot,’ reports Bailly, count- ing by units; but Patriotism counts by tens and even by 171 Thomas Carlyle hundre... ...stion him straitly on that Mayor’s-Order to resist force by force; on that strategic scheme of cutting Saint- Antoine in two halves: he answers what h... ... two halves: he answers what he can: they think it were right to send this strategic National Commandant to the Abbaye Prison, and let a Court of Law ...

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...ution made mountains of his petty sins in this kind. On reaching the fresh air he was sufficiently unsteady to incline the row of three at one moment a... ... hoisted into the waggon he had formerly hauled, and with his hoofs in the air, and his shoes shining in the setting sunlight, 24 Phase the First — T... ...e — didn’t you make that hat blow off on purpose? I’ll swear you did!’ Her strategic silence confirmed his suspicion. Then d’Urberville cursed and swor... ... who walked about them with 44 Phase the First — The Maiden a proprietary air, as though the place had been built by themselves, and not by certain d... ...rld, which, so terrible in mass, is so unformidable, even pitiable, in its units. On these lonely hills and dales her quiescent glide was of a piece w... ...o hours, owing to sundry wrong turnings, ere she found herself on a summit commanding the long sought for vale, the Val ley of the Great Dairies, the... ...become an American or Australian Phase the Third — The Rally 103 Abraham, commanding like a monarch his flocks and his herds, his spotted and his ring... ...t for her adored one’s happiness: silence it should be. Thus steadied by a command from the only person in the world who had any shadow of right to co...

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...artistic silk ties, which they tied very much on one side and wore with an air of defiance. And a certain swashbuckling carriage. And then came the gl... ...n,” said Parsons, watching with knitted brows. “Don’t ram it down. Give it Air. Seen my stick, O’ Man? Right O.” And leaning on his cane he composed h... ...outfitting department. Presently the street door opened and Platt, with an air of intense devotion to business assumed to cover his adoption of that u... ...- ally, but he had dealt with him generally as “one of those ill- adjusted units that abound in a society that has failed to develop a collective inte... ...all. “Knight there!” “Lady!” he answered. “Come again to-morrow!” “At your command. But—” “Yes?” “Just one finger.” “What do you mean?” “T o kiss.” Th... ...gestures. Uncle Jim was kept busy, and unable to plan his retreat with any strategic soundness. He was more- over manifestly a little nervous about th...

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...photograph showed a stream and a meadow beyond, and some trees, and in the air a black, pencil-like object with flat wings on either side of it. It wa... ...er side of it. It was the first record of the first apparatus heavier than air that ever maintained itself in the air by mechanical force. Across the ... ...lminating exercise of his intelli- gence and his intellectual courage. The air of ‘Nunc Dimittis’ sounds in same of these writings. ‘The great things ... ... following in the wake of the osten- sible religions. They were ceasing to command the services of any but second-rate men. After the middle of the ei... ...s of the political writer, the cunning refusals to accept plain facts, the strategic devices, the tactical manoeuvres, the records of mobilisations an... ...which, for ex- ample, the reports of the British Admiralty and of the Slav commanders were recorded as they kept coming to hand. Upon these maps, as u... ...eth cen- tury understood it. T o one human being at least the consult- ing commanders had the likeness of world-wielding gods. She was a skilled typis... ...t of the supplies of energy- releasing material, fixed a certain number of units of energy as the value of a gold sovereign, declared a sovereign to b... ...er and the proximity of cultivation, their plans are no longer affected by strategic considerations or thoughts of social in- security. The aeroplane ...

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... override the awk- wardness of his involuntary pause, he remarked, with an air of mature conviction, that the weather was hot for the time of year. “V... ...comes the dull digestive complacencies—or irritations. We have to take the air or else our thoughts grow sluggish, stupid, run into gulfs and blind al... ... owards the gulf.” “You must sleep,” said Isbister decisively, and with an air of a remedy discovered. “Certainly you must sleep.” “My mind is perfect... ...u have lions? I suppose not. You had the old pounds? They are our monetary units.” “But what was that you said—sixdoz?” “Yes. Six dozen, Sire. Of cour... ...e as the soughing of the sea upon a pebble beach. Ostrog had chosen a huge commanding pile of crushed and overthrown ma- sonry, and on this a stage of... ...aphic renderings of machinery in mo- tion, and Lincoln despatched Graham’s commands for models of machines and small machines to illustrate the variou... ... to win the battles of the world, when costly cannon, great ironclads, and strategic railways became the means of power. To-day is the day of wealth. ... ...ith the din. His plans were vague and unformed. He had one picture of some commanding position from which he could address the multitudes, an- other o...

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...4 5:25 PM Page vii Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page viii p. 15 FAA Air Traffic Control Centers p. 15 Reporting structure, Northeast Air Defens... ...ags were held off the plane until it was confirmed that he had boarded the air- craft. This did not hinder Atta’s plans. 2 Atta and Omari arrived in B... ...d by CAPPS.The Hazmi brothers were also selected for extra scrutiny by the air- line’s customer service representative at the check-in counter. He did... ...which had tracked the first two hijackings, requested at 9:07 that Herndon Command Center “get messages to airborne aircraft to increase security for ... ...een two federal agencies: the FAA and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).The most recent hijacking that involved U.S. air traf- fic ... ... two agencies interacted eight years later, we will review their missions, command and control structures, and work- ing relationship on the morning o... ...eral borders where Pakistani military officers hoped for what they called “strategic depth.” 66 It is unlikely that Bin Ladin could have returned to A... ...grammed funds for other priorities. 20 In 1998, the FBI issued a five-year strategic plan led by its deputy director, Robert “Bear” Bryant. For the fi... ...terterrorism. 22 Second, the new division intended to strengthen the FBI’s strategic analy- sis capability faltered. It received insufficient resource...

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...Hammer, Pepin Bow-legged, where now is their eye of menace, their voice of command? Rollo and his shaggy Northmen cover not the Seine with ships; but ... ...our tall lackeys,’ says Mercier, as if he had seen it, ‘hold him up in the air, that he may fall into the garment without ves- tige of wrinkle; from w... ...eir clay hovels, into their garrets and hutches, the masses consist all of units. Every unit of whom has his own heart and sorrows; stands covered the... ...kei. Little elf, or imp; though young, already withered; with its withered air of premature vice, of knowingness, of completed elf-hood: useful in var... ...use there, in the Rue St. Antoine (a noted Warehouse),—the new Montgolfier air-ship launches itself. Ducks and poultry are borne skyward: but now shal... ...of Lyons. Captain D’Agoust may now therefore look forward to Majorship, to Commandantship of the Tuilleries; (Montgaillard, i. 404.)—and withal vanish... ...nd exasperated the other eleven! The Intendants of Provinces, the Military Commandants are at their posts, on the appointed 8th of May: but in no Parl... ...stion him straitly on that Mayor’s-Order to resist force by force; on that strategic scheme of cutting Saint-Antoine in two halves: he answers what he... ... two halves: he answers what he can: they think it were right to send this strategic National Commandant to the Abbaye Prison, and let a Court of Law ...

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...force upon the back line of the opponent’s side of the country was of such strategic importance as to determine the battle. But this form of battle we... ...ntrive how he may get to the back line and safety with the vestiges of his command …. But let me, before I go on to tell of actual battles and cam- pa... ... the back line of their antagonist. He is then supposed to have suffered a strategic defeat, and he must retreat his entire force over the back line i... ...is a near view of Blue’s side, with his force put down. He has grasped the strategic mistake of Red, and is going to fling every man at the farm. His ... ...one last gleam of enterprise—to throw forward his left gun into a position commanding Blue’s right. Blue then pounds Red’s right with his gun to the r... ...ping the soldiers in their boxes with the lids on, and moving the boxes as units. (This box- ing idea is a new one, and affords a very good substitute... ...od substitute for the curtain; I have tried it twice for games in the open air where the curtain was not available.) Neither side would, of course, kn... ... try , one could have a general controlling the whole campaign, divisional commanders, batteries of guns, specialised brigades, and a quite military m... ...fair. I have (as several illustrations show) tried Little Wars in the open air. The toy soldiers stand quite well on closely mown grass, but the long-...

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...Special Manhattan Engineer District Investigating Group, The United States Strategic Bombing Survey, The British Mission to Japan, and The Joint Atomi... ...truments would be sent from the United States, and that the Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific would be informed about the organization of the mi... ...THIS SUBJECT.” General Farrell arrived in Y okohama on 30 August, with the Commanding General of the 8th Army; Colonel War- ren, who was Chief of the ... ...ith the fullest cooperation from CINCPAC of the Navy and the United States Strategic Air Forces, he initiated promptly a cam- paign which included the... ...llest cooperation from CINCPAC of the Navy and the United States Strategic Air Forces, he initiated promptly a cam- paign which included the preparati... ...s begun in the spring of 1945. This was done in close cooperation with the Commanding General, Army Air Forces, and his Headquarters. A number of expe... ...1945. This was done in close cooperation with the Commanding General, Army Air Forces, and his Headquarters. A number of experts in various fields ass... ...er of planes coming in was very small—probably not more than three—and the air raid alert was lifted. The nor- mal radio broadcast warning was given t... ...rced concrete frames and although they were toppled, they held together as units. Practically every wooden building or building with tim- ber frame wi...

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... retire; and he was not the man to refuse a request, far less to disobey a command. Thereupon he turned farmer, a trade he was to practice on a large ... ...s head in a bag and give him another dozen!’ survives as a specimen of his commands; and the men were often punished twice or thrice in a week. On boa... ...little offensive.’ The Conqueror carried the flag of Vice-Admiral Plampin, commanding at the Cape and St. Helena; and at that all- important islet, in... ...llaise,” the national war hymn, grave and powerful, sweetened by the night air – though night in these splendid streets was turned into day, every win... ...e insurgents, the name of England was in evil odour; and it was thus – for strategic reasons, so to speak – that Fleeming found himself on the way to ... ...nd what he could afford, and he only projected it ‘to have a castle in the air.’ And there were actual pinches. Fresh from a warmer sun, he was oblige... ... – on to the last block, [and] down the branch, sniffing the guano-scented air and detecting the old bones. The hartshorn flavour of the guano becomes... ...ut the year 1861, we find on record that Jenkin’s measurements in absolute units of the specific resistance of pure gutta-percha, and of the gutta-per...