Word: bumpings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gene Tunney was escorted, after a welcoming demonstration by a Chicago mob, to his training camp at Lake Villa, III. As is usual on such momentous occasions, a dozen motorcycle police "made way" for the celebrity's car at about 60 m.p.h. Hitting a bump, Officer Frank Truba's motorcycle careened into two others-smash. Mr. Tunney leaped from his motor, knelt, helped give first aid. . . . Later somebody asked Mr. Tunney if boxing was conducive to ideals. Said he: "Ideals are congenial...
...tests with lights. But no one would listen. Finally he borrowed Mr. Bradley's ear. He examined some of Mr. Bradley's horses and found one with weak eyes. He set a small hurdle in front of the beast and Mr. Bradley watched the horse walk toward it and bump his shins. Mr. Bradley ordered his whole stable tested. Dr. Emons made glasses for four of them. They race truer. Previously near the rail or in a bunch of horses they climbed*; they performed inconsistently and ran good races only when breaking from the barrier far outside. Now they...
...pilots follow: Snow, 30 hours; Pabst, 20 hours; Otis, 16 hours; and Ames, 9 hours. Five additional men expect to qualify this summer as pilots, either in the Naval Flight School at Squantum or by taking private instruction. They are: R. W. Ayer '28, Brutus Brooks ocC., W. N. Bump '28, M. N. Fairbank '28, R. E. Gregg '28, and F. P. Sprout '28. Ayer, Bump and Gregg expect to go to Squantum; Brooks and Fairbank will take instructions at Curtiss Field, Kong Island; and Sproul expects to fly from the East Boston Airport...
...entered the cockpit. At 7:52 a. m. he was roaring down the runway, his plane lurching on the soft spots of the wet ground. Out of the safety zone, he hit a bump, bounced into the air, quickly returned to earth. Disaster seemed imminent; a tractor and a gully were ahead. Then his plane took the air, cleared the tractor, the gully; cleared some telephone wires. Five hundred onlookers believed they had witnessed a miracle. It was a miracle of skill...
...formation of the new Student Advisory Committee was announced last night by T. H. Eliot '28, chairman of the committee. The following men were appointed: W. N. Bump '28, Chandler Robbins '28, J. O. Ross '29, Barrett Stevens '29, A. R. Sweezy '29, and John Noble Jr. '30. Two of the appointees, Robbins and Ross, were members of the committee during the past year. The appointments are subject to the approval of the newly-elected Student Council...