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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...missing man, flew his own machine over the treacherous Alleghenies to join 25 other planes in a systematic search of northern Ohio. Presumption was that Nelson was forced down by ice forming on the wings of his plane. Wing ice changes the air foil to such an extent that the wing no longer exerts a lifting power in forward motion. This trouble and decreased visibility due to fog or snow will bring down the best of pilots. The airmail route between Cleveland and New York is considered the worst in the country, with few landing fields, rugged and forest-covered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...assistants and to regulate and direct coaching of all rowing at Harvard from the freshman dormitory crews right up to the first university eight. From all reports, Mr. Whiteside is the type of man to be entrusted with a share in Harvard's crew destinies not only to the extent of turning out winning combinations but also, and more important, from the point of view of the development of crew as a pleasurable and healthy recreation for all the undergraduates who may care to indulge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW CREW COACH | 12/13/1929 | See Source »

...returns of these older surveys and will be published in the CRIMSON. As over 90 per cent of the classes from 1923 to 1926 responded to the questionnaire sent out by the Committee on Choice of Vocations, the significance of the comparisons thus made will depend upon the extent to which the Class of 1930 participates in the study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW SURVEY TO QUIZ SENIORS ON CAREERS | 12/12/1929 | See Source »

...have the saloons back? The very fact that they are unwilling to say that they want the saloon back, has a meaning. They know perfectly well that present conditions, bad as they are, are vastly better than they wore in the days of the saloon. To that extent at least prohibition is a success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARVER SUPPORTS HOOVER'S DRY PLEA | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Realizing that the Juniors have to a large extent formed their associations and contacts, the Masters or the Senior Tutors will be pleased to consult with the members of such groups or their representatives in order to see if their desires cannot be met in some manner which will be satisfactory to all parties concerned. Applications for admission in such cases should be filed together...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROVISIONS MADE FOR INTER CLASS GROUPS IN HOUSES | 12/7/1929 | See Source »

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