Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finer details the Wolverine Varsity yesterday went through some of the most intense practice of the season in an attempt to perfect a defense that will stop the Crimson backs. Coach Kipke worked with two complete teams and seems to have developed a system to use against the Harvard aerial attack. The entire squad was in uniform and indications that they are in shape were in evidence when all of the men who have been on the cripple list appeared in the scrimmage against the Freshmen. Coach Fisher's yearlings lined up against the Wolves early in the session with...
...veteran against Michigan Saturday either as halfback or as quarterback. At any rate it seems that the Harvard coaching staff has decided to take advantage of Huguley's ability as a punter, defensive and offensive back, with the added feature of his acting as either end of the aerial attack Harvard is using...
...cruiser Rochester, oldest U. S. fighting ship (TIME, Sept. 1) and flag-bearer of the Special Service (Caribbean) Squadron, at Corinto, Nicaragua. Lying at Philadelphia and Norfolk the battleships Florida and Utah received word that they were to be scrapped, the Utah taken to sea as target for aerial bombs and big guns. Sixteen destroyers were notified that their lives would soon be over. Twenty-five submarines, snuggled like schools of fish into Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and New London, Conn., learned they were to be shelved or scrapped. Two headquarters of the mine force heard they were to be abolished...
...NYRBA is due much pioneering glory NYRBA's President, Ralph A. O'Neill, piloted the first commercial plane between the United States and Buenos Aires blazing the virgin aerial trail from New York to Miami to Rio de Janeiro to Buenos Aires; NYRBA planes were the first to cross the perilous Andes between Santiago and Buenos Aires many weeks before they were followed by Pan American Grace Airways; NYRBA's pilots explored the lower West Indies and the East Coast of South America to the Guianas many weeks before Lindbergh "blazed the trail" to Paramaribo; explored thousands...
...orchards outside Peshawar (TIME, Aug. 18), continued last week. Although Royal Air Force bombers peppered the tribesmen with as many as 50 tons of bombs in a single day, Pesha- war continued surrounded by hostile besiegers. Some observers began to doubt the efficacy of the R. A. F.'s aerial attack. One rumor was that the Afridi left their capes and turbans lying on the ground when they heard the planes coming over, retreated to caves, amused themselves watching the British blow up their raiment. Another rumor reported that the invaders were led by a fearless, six-foot girl named...