Word: balloon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain Taylor served in the Air Service during the war, for the most part being detailed to observation work from a captive balloon. During the period of his stay on the front line, he was obliged to jump in a parachute from his balloon on four different occasions when attacked by enemy planes. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross...
Besides this work there was instruction in pistol firing, stable management, motors, wireless, telephony and telegraphy, and in balloon observation of fire. Several men also did some observation of fire from airplanes...
...service flight squadron and observation balloon are to be available for adjustment of fire from the air. Last summer nearly all students in the Advanced courses had an opportunity to observe firing on the range from the balloon, and this year it is hoped to extend the training to airplanes as well...
...long years of waiting, the Senior Class will today receive collectively certain coins of the realm which in days of yore they contributed as individuals for one of those Senior Pienics, now but a memory. For what changes time has wrought! Is not the currency inflated like a toy balloon, that it might be fulfilled which was spake by Professor Taussig, "If prices rise, the debtor gains and the creditor loses"? You may, indeed, "take back the half that thou gavest"; but how little does it represent in the way of "consumable goods" for senior picnics...
...place, while in the relay race a team composed of J. N. Macy '22, W. M. Houghton '22, J. C. Burchard '21, and H. H. Hudson '22 was the winner. The men's obstacle race was won by H. H. Hudson '22, and J. C. Burchard '21, and the balloon fight between two large teams, on both of which were University men, was won by the "Red" team. Other University men not affiliated with the R. O. T. C. to place well were W. H. Forbes '23, and R. G. Hooker '23, first and second respectively in the Gretna Green...