Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Freshman Union Society will be represented by Richard t. Davis, Caspar Weinberger, and Beris Yucht. Remington and Weinberger will deliver the rebuttal.
When every detail of the apparatus had been carefully checked, Davis kissed his mother, father and sister goodby, waved to his friends, went up for his first test flight. At 6,000 ft. he stepped overside, fluttered a few seconds on his wings, pirouetting in the air currents. Then he...
Those on the ground saw the white puff of his opening parachute, breathed easier. Then they held their breath for the parachute had only partly opened before tangling in the wings. Spinning head over heels, Stunter Davis plunged earthward. Groundlings waited anxiously for the second parachute to billow out. It...
Sohn thought Davis must have lost consciousness while spinning downward, hence failed to open his emergency 'chute. Said he : "I am afraid that more casualties will be reported if many people without experience in delayed jumping try to fly with their own wings."
Died. Henry Augustus Lukeman, 64, sculptor of outdoor memorial statuary (President McKinley for Adams, Mass, and Dayton, Ohio; Columbus for Manhattan; Daniel Boone for Paris, Ky.; Jefferson Davis for Washington and Lexington, Ky.); of heart disease; in Manhattan. In 1925, after the ousting of Gutzon Borglum, Virginia-born Sculptor Lukeman...