Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comparative speed of the Pocock shell which it rowed in the triangular race, and the new Lutz boat. They rowed a little more than a third of a mile each time, first in the Pocock and then in the Lutz, and they rowed the distance about a second faster in the latter shell...
...rowing consistently well and has a good chance of victory, considering its win over the Navy and the latter's triumph over Tech. The Freshman race is impossible of prognostication, for the only thing known about the Harvard 1930 crew is that it is from two to four lengths faster than the Sophomore eight and can always keep ahead of the University 150-pound crew. Neither of the latter crews is favored to win its race on Saturday, but the lightweights, untested save for a defeat at the hands of Kent School's powerful oarsmen, may give Yale, victor...
Letting gas out of his balloon, Captain Gray began to descend. At 8,000 feet, he found himself falling faster than would be pleasant for a landing, so he adjusted his parachute, stepped out into nothingness, floated to the ground uninjured at Golden Gate, Ill., 100 miles from Scott Field (Belleville, Ill.) his starting point. His trip to the outer edge of the world and back took two and one-half hours...
...here, and after the tents were pitched on the bluff and supper eaten in the cabin, there was light enough to hook--and lose--the first salmon. As it slowly darkened, the nighthawks began to circle above the stream, the deer stole out to drink, and ripples along the faster water began to weave their fantastic patterns of black velvet shot with silver. A whippoorwill, the first I remember hearing as far north as this, is calling from the birches behind the tents. The thermometer registers 43, and we crawl into our sleeping bags and listen for a few happy...
...think that aviation has a great future," he continued. "Through airplanes, the world is going to advance even more than it has with the invention of the steam engine and electricity. The airplane will make everything move faster, and consequently faster progress. I believe that in a very few years airplane trips to Europe from America will not be considered unusual affairs. They will be made by business men and vacationers, and will be thought of as perfectly natural means of journeying. No doubt, within a few years, trips like I am now making will be common. People will...