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"But, Theodore, old pet," said Davis amiably. "The fact that a plane won't loop the loop or make nose dives at ninety degrees doesn't make it hopeless as a battleplane."
He was affectionately expounding the good points of a monster seaplane drawn up in its hangar by the beach.