Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This parallel would no longer be posiible. Byrd and Amundsen have taken the last chance for glory from Harvard-Yale athletics by charting the road to the Pole. Had the original proposal been carried out, the evils of intercollegiate athletics might never have survived until today. Instead of preparations for the annual football contest, the fall might find the hardy occupants of the Crimson and Blue sledges girding their loins for a final dash across the perilous ice fields of the Arctic to the Pole...
...Tray had his day. Not to Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd for his spectacular flight to the North Pole and back last spring at Spitzbergen but to U. S. Mail Pilot Shirley J. Short, for having flown 2,000 hours with valuable cargo in all kinds of weather and with never a serious accident or lapse in schedule, did the International League of Aviators last week award the Harmon Trophy for the best performance in 1926 by a U. S. flyer. To Pilot Georges Pelleder D'Oisy for his long distance flights (France to Africa, Paris to Tokyo) went...
Lieutenant-Commander. Richard Byrd declared in regard to this statement, It is foolish for anyone to say that aviation is not valuable. The value of quicker transportation, to mankind cannot be estimated. It will unlike nations and link rural and urban communities more closely. The position of the airplane today is analogous to that of the automobile 15 years ago. There were people then who maintained that the growth of the automobile industry was a very great evil. We do not consider it so, now, however...
...founded 150 years ago); the guest rooms, the auditorium, the pictures of the founders of the country's scholastic hierarchy. There was a festive meal with more speakers of distinction: Dr. John H. Finley of Manhattan, President Edwin A. Alderman of the University of Virginia (representing Governor Byrd), President Mary E. Woolley of Mount Holyoke College. Among others present, though modestly silent, was John D. Rockefeller Jr. whose aid in the society's current million-dollar endowment drive has not been confined to signing checks but has included extensive travel and speechmaking from city to city...
Born. To Mrs. Marie Ames Byrd, of Winchester, Va., and Boston, a daughter. Mrs. Byrd is the wife of Lieut. Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, U. S. N., who flew to the North Pole and back from Spitzbergen last spring. Lieutenant Byrd's brother, Harry F., is Governor of Virginia...