Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Endurance Success. Cleveland's endurance flyers, Byron K. Newcomb and Roy L. Mitchell (TIME, July 8), kept their Stinson-Detroiter-Whirlwind flying far into last week, made a new record- 174 hr. 59 sec. They made 24 refueling contacts, used 1,903 gal. of gasoline, 87 of oil. Only their own exhaustion brought them down. Motor and plane were in serviceable condition until joy-crazy Clevelanders ripped at them for souvenirs. Also joyous, Otto I. Liesy, vice-president of Stewart Aircraft Co., who financed the project, kissed the flyers-both hard-boiled Army men. Popular son-of-a-brewer...
Endurance Attempts. The Question Mark stayed in the air 150 hrs. (TIME, Jan. 14). The Fort Worth stayed up 172½ hrs. (TIME, June 3). To surpass these records four planes were flying last week. At Cleveland R. L. Mitchell and Byron K. Newcomb took up the Stinson-Detroiter Miss Cleveland. As the new week began they were still flying. Also flying were Leo Norm's and Maurice Morrison in another Cessna at Los Angeles. At Minneapolis Thorwald Johnson and Owen Haughland kept the Cessna Miss Minneapolis up for 150 hrs., when a broken valve forced them down. At Roosevelt Field...
Shot put--Won by Kuehn, 50 ft. 2 1-2 in.; second, C--D. Draper '32, 46 ft. 8 in.; third, Byron...
Harry Brenner, of Roxbury; Richard Henry Chapman, of Leominster; Harry Michael Dragos, of Dorchester; David Samuel Gruber, of Roxbury; Sidney Sylvester Korzenik, of New York City; Dwight Hunter Marfield, of Dayton, O.; Sumner Byron Myers, of Winthrop; Saul Rosenzweig, of Malden; George Alfred Sawin, of Englewood...
Have you ever heard of Lord Byron...