Word: brix
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knees seemed to graze the ground, who hurled himself through the tape, won the windy race in 10 sec. flat. He explained: "I guess I'm built so low the wind just didn't hit me." Then he proceeded to win the 220-yard dash also. Herman Brix, Los Angeles A. C., hurled the 8-lb. shot 67 ft. 11½ in. for the meet's only world's record...
Costes to Le Brix. Joseph Le Brix, flying from Paris to Saigon, French Indo-China (TIME, March 4). crashed safely into the Gulf of Martaban, Burma, last week. In Paris was his onetime world-tour partner and present antagonist. Dieudonne Costes, who crashed a fortnight ago at the beginning of a similar pan-Eurasian flight. Crashed Flyer Costes sent Crashed Flyer Le Brix a carefully polite message of condolence...
...aviators, Francis Coli & Charles Nungesser, in their attempted flight over the ocean, France has grieved. Grief was tinged with resentment for robbing the nation of glory, two heroes of their lives. When, at the time Ruth Elder took off for Paris, two other brave Frenchmen, Dieudonne Costes & Joseph Le Brix, challenged the Atlantic, to another conflict, the hearts of all Frenchmen went with them. Their ship, the Nungesser-Coli, was to pick up the foil of the dead heroes, was to continue the duel on behalf of the entire nation...