Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Small Balloon. One Leo Stevens rode 350 miles in a 50-pound balloon. Standing in the vaselike basket, too narrow to sit down, he traveled all night from Englewood, N. J. to the vicinity of Saranac Lake, N. Y. Releasing the hydrogen, he put the bag and basket on his back, and walked to the nearest railroad station...
Last week a telephone tinkled in the London residence of the Princess Loewenstein-Wertheim. It was Captain Hamilton calling from Upavon, Wiltshire. The weather reports were favorable. His plane, the St. Raphael, was ready. Her maid hastily packed two brief cases, two red hat boxes, a little wicker basket and bundled them into a motor. The Princess entered the automobile and ordered speed...
...where the mercury solidifies after 39° below Zero; up where the air is so thin that one's body feels as puffy as a cloud?sat Capt. Hawthorne C. Gray in the basket of a free balloon. Except for the glass of his goggles he was covered with fur and leather. A machine pumped electrically-warmed oxygen into his lungs. His instruments, he' said, indicated an altitude of 41,000 feet (almost eight miles). This was higher than any man had ever been,* either by free balloon or airplane. The previous record for a free balloon was 35,433 feet...
Smith: Wrestling 5. Squash 1. Basket-ball 5. Hockey 3. Representative 5. Total...
Gore: Wrestling 0. Squash 3. Basket-ball 6. Hockey 3. Representation 1. Total...