Night FlightAfter a tragic crash in the Andes, an airport supervisor must decide whether to continue the "night flights" of the mail. |
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... feel him to be , how tender - hearted , and how vulnerable ! But the hero of Night Flight , though human through and through , rises to superhuman heights of valor . The quality which I think delights one most of all in this stirring ...
... feel him to be , how tender - hearted , and how vulnerable ! But the hero of Night Flight , though human through and through , rises to superhuman heights of valor . The quality which I think delights one most of all in this stirring ...
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... feeling . When it happens at night another feeling creeps into it — of hav- ing done something immensely silly . I shall never again admire a merely brave man . " By way of epigraph I might append to this quotation an aphorism from ...
... feeling . When it happens at night another feeling creeps into it — of hav- ing done something immensely silly . I shall never again admire a merely brave man . " By way of epigraph I might append to this quotation an aphorism from ...
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. chapter five Robineau Was Feeling Tired To - night . Robineau was feeling tired to - night . Look- ing at Pellerin - Pellerin the Conqueror - he had just discovered that his own life was a gray one . Worst of ...
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. chapter five Robineau Was Feeling Tired To - night . Robineau was feeling tired to - night . Look- ing at Pellerin - Pellerin the Conqueror - he had just discovered that his own life was a gray one . Worst of ...
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ALREADY BENEATH HIM THROUGH | 17 |
RIVIÈRE GLANCED AT THE PILOT | 33 |
AN HOUR LATER THE WIRELESS | 53 |
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