Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Over Long Island, last week, Lieut. Maxwell W. Balfour and Lieut. John H. McCormack were testing a Curtiss falcon preparatory to accepting it for the Army. They put it into a roll at 3,000 feet. The wings crumpled and the fuselage "flew right out of the wings" they said. Calmly they turned off the ignition (to prevent fire in the crash) and jumped out with parachutes. The fuselage came to earth in the stables of the Meadow Brook Club, killing two polo ponies: Gay Boy, used in the International Cup Play last autumn by Malcolm Stevenson, and Anaconda, also...
Invented: a camera which will operate at an altitude of more than 30,000 feet, penetrating hazes and photographing in a single exposure an area of over four square miles, automatically timed and operated, electrically heated to prevent freezing, making an exposure nine by eighteen inches in size...
...bestowing this degree on Mr. Hughes, Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown said: "In your youthful spirit and the direct sincerity of your diplomacy you are another Lindbergh with feet on the ground." *Not to be confused with that other Oklahoma oilman, E. W. Marland, who put up the money for a huge statue of The Pioneer Woman (TIME...
...challenge boat race, bowing in the final to the powerful second University crew. Again in 1920 the Union Boat Club mustered a crew which did not win in the opening heat, for it drew as its opponents the famed Leanders who nosed them out by only a dozen feet...
...Francis C. Chadwick of Ardema, N. J. went out for an airplane ride with his son Stewart. Over Asbury Park, he leaned out of the cockpit to see what the famed resort looked like from a height of 1,000 feet. His spectacles fell from his nose. Next day the same spectacles, undamaged, were returned to Mr. Chadwick by Arthur Van Brunt, on whose Asbury Park farm they had fallen...