Word: biked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sonic wall-i.e., by flying faster than the speed of sound (about 765 m.p.h. at sea level). ¶ In St. Louis, the McDonell Aircraft Corp. put the world's first ramjet helicopter* through its paces for the U.S. Air Force. In test flights, the 310-lb. "flying bike" readily lifted an additional 300 Ibs. and attained a speed of 50 m.p.h. To the Air Force, it looked like just the thing for short-range observation work, artillery spotting and courier service. ¶ At San Diego, Consolidated Vultee's experimental "flying auto" made its first test flight, circling...
Leading a field of 18 cyclists, 17 of whom crossed the Waban finish line, Vaclav E. Benes '50 triumphed in the Wellesley bike classic yesterday, going the 14 mile distance in nine minutes and 32 seconds...
...cyclists threaded their way through the narrow passage that police maintained for them. Paris' Avenue des Champs Elysées was so jammed that it looked like Liberation Day. The first postwar revival of the Tour de France was under way. The 26-day-long, 2,900-mile bike race-a kind of Bunion Derby on wheels-is France's most avidly followed sporting event...
Lewis Douglas, in London less than six weeks as the new U.S. Ambassador, had already started a trade war. Hearing somehow that His Excellency likes to bike, 60 British manufacturers immediately tangled sprockets over who should present him with a custom-built British wheel. While they were debating the matter, a Yankee outfit (Manhattan's Abercrombie & Fitch) air-expressed Douglas an American bike. His diplomatic decision: "I'll find it hard to ride two bikes at once, but I shall receive both gratefully...
...First time was in 1914, for playing polo on a bike in the street. † Also Gartered: Viscounts Cranborne and Addison, wartime and current leaders of the House of Lords. ** Five-star warriors "relieved" so far: General George C. Marshall, General Henry H. Arnold, Admiral Ernest J. King...