Word: doves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...endurance and distance records from the French, who had just wrested them away with a 76-hr, flight. Over the Mediterranean not far from Pisa, the plane's propeller snapped. Flailing blades ripped through the cockpit, slashed the fuselage in two. One man tried to jump as the plane dove. But his parachute was caught in a strut, he went to death with his mates...
Wood and deLima were the only Crimson swimmers to take first places. At the start of the relay race Harvard lead 29 to 25; Wood and the Hanover anchor man dove into the water at the same second, but the Sophomore star gained a yard lead which he held to the end. The time set, 1 min., 39. sec., betters the former Harvard record mark by 1-5 sec., but compares unfavorably with the mark of 1 min., 34 4-5 sec. set by the Eli relay team in its victory over Princeton on Saturday...
...Stieglitz Group: John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe (Mrs. Stieglitz), Arthur G. Dove, Marsden Hartley, Charles Demuth, Photographer Paul Strand...
With Pilot Ralph Wien, the Vicar-General took Father Walsh up for a jaunt. The plane, a Diesel-powered Bellanca, circled the field, dove, crashed, killed pilot and priests. A gift of the Marquette League of New York, which has spent $750,000 upon missions for Indians of the southwest U. S. and of Alaska, the Marquette was intended to enable Father Delon to visit in three weeks missions scattered over 500,000 sq. mi., a trip that formerly required a year's travel by dog team...
During the War Northcliffe's press out-jingoed Hearst; he himself, as Director of Propaganda in Enemy Lands, imitated the cooing dove, made soft appeals to erring German brothers. Biographer Fyfe notes the inconsistency, says Northcliffe was unaware of it. But Co-Worker H. G. Wells was annoyed, resigned from Northcliffe's propaganda board...