Word: accidentally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ten thousand miles travelled in the air, two hundred and fifteen passengers carried, without an accident of any kind, do more than refute the dire predictions of those who foresaw a succession of funerals in the path of the student aviators. It points to a future of invaluable training and...
Flying Club pilots have now flown over 10,000 miles and carried 215 passengers without an accident of any kind according to the annual report presented by Treasurer M. N. Fairbank '28 at the final meeting of the club Tuesday evening. The first half year of operation of the club...
"He [Mr. Prettyman] was engaged at the time on a highly commendable humanitarian purpose, but said purpose was no part of the business or affairs of the defendant company, nor was his injury caused in the performance of duties of the company." Thus, though Mr. Prettyman lost his life while...
Herbert Bayard Swope (executive editor of the New York World) and Mrs. Swope had their noses broken, needed surgical stitching, when their motor was sideswiped by an oncoming motor that edged over to the wrong side of Central Ave., Yonkers. The Swope chauffeur and Colyumist Heywood Broun of the World...
Imagine a gigantic yellow bird, with wingspread of 67 feet, weighing some 6,000 pounds, carrying an additional load of 11,000 pounds. Imagine that bird losing necessary flying speed a few feet above the ground, trying to land in a marsh at 70 miles per hour. In such a...