Word: airings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members of his Leipzig student corps, bearing his student cap, which now lies with him in his grave. The funeral's pace was set by the dull thudding "Death March" from Gö;tterdämmerung (The Twilight of the Gods*), interrupted by low, whining air planes from which whipped taut black streamers. One automobile was in the procession, that of Widow Stresemann. Led by grizzled President von Hindenburg, who left the sad line at the Foreign Office, other mourners stalked solemnly afoot to the graveyard...
...baton whisked into the air last week, cut a circle or two to release the sombre sounds of Schumann's Manfred overture and in Manhattan an important audience settled itself ecstatically to hear Arturo Toscanini conduct the season's first concert of the Philharmonic-Symphony. The occasion itself, anyone would have said, demanded more preliminary pomp. Long has the Philharmonic angled for an option on the services of Toscanini. Only this year has he come to begin the season and to conduct the major portion. But when last week his audience stood proudly to greet him and began...
...National Air Tour (Ford Reliability Trophy). From Detroit last week started a great caravan of 20 competing planes plus ten press and service planes. They constituted the fifth annual national air tour and were competing for the Edsel Ford Reliability Trophy and $16,000 in prizes. During 16 days they were to stop at 32 Canadian and U. S. cities...
...games played so far this season, against Colby and Boston University, the Granite State eleven has tossed 24 passes, of which 18 were completed. Six of the seven touchdowns run up against the two opposing teams were scored through the air. John Shea seems to be the main spring of the Wildcat passing attack. He is generally conceded to be one of the best passers in New England college ranks and it is hoped that his sharpshooting will give the Crimson secondaries a severe test. When Cagle and the Army come to Cambridge a week later, Harvard's anti-aircraft...
Following its usual policy of trading in its old airplane annually and buying a new one, the Harvard Flying Club has just purchased a new "Travel-air" biplane. This airplane, which is powered with a Wright J-6 five-cylinder engine, will be delivered to the Flying Club on Wednesday at the factory in Wichita, Kansas. It will be given in charge of R. B. Bell '30, vice-president of the club, and Max field Parrish, who are planning to fly it to Boston Muller Field in Revere will be the temporary quarters of the new biplane until hangar accommodation...