Word: dives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ball snaps from center, the quarterback takes it, wheels, and flips it to a halfback. The halfback draws back his arm and shoots and oval on an airline to an end far down the field. A frantic dive by the safety man, and a touchdown is averted by a scant four yards. The teams line up there is a line plunge and another, and a touchdown. The stands are rocking with excitement. Every woman is gasping "Who was that?" and every man is fumbling at his program to discover who threw the pass, who caught it, and who made...
...inhabitants of New York City, ''Diamond LiP' means only one thing and that is a smart, scheming, successful harlot. Mae West, buxom actress, is chiefly responsible for making this meaning a household word. Her play, Diamond Lil, in which she performs the leading role of a dive-keeper's mistress, has been a smash-hit on Broadway since early spring...
...dumb. Pilot Charles Potholm took him for a ride and went into a loop-the-loop with the idea of frightening him into speech and hearing. But the plane never came out of that loop; Luke Briotta is still deaf and dumb-and dead. There had been a sickening dive, an explosion and flames, an ugly hole in a swamp near Agawam, Mass. Pilot Potholm and another passenger also died...
...nightmare and quite unreal. Even now I find it difficult to realize we were in a blazing airplane over mid-Atlantic at midnight . . . seemed impossible to put down safely in the dark on a burning seaplane which still had a ton overload. As I drew out of the dive I saw the glow reflected on the wave crests. I managed to put the machine down on one crest, ran down a hill of water, up the next hill, and just prevented the machine from shooting into the air off the next crest...
Frank T. Courtney, British trans-Atlantic flight aspirant, had enough cause for perturbation; must have felt bedeviled. His 1,500-foot forced dive occurred at about 2:15 a. m., 750 miles northwest of Horta, happy starting point in the Azores. He and his companions waited during 15 minutes of flames for an explosion that never came. Heavy seas extinguished the fire which had gutted the engine room. Heavy seas tossed the Dornier-Napier and its passengers for the next twelve hours. They tried smoke signals which almost re-ignited the craft, sent by radio S. 0. S., false position...