Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mail, plus ex- press, Zeppelins can be made to pay handsomely he thinks. He tightened his tie, which slips loose on his thick neck, looked at his Manhattan timepiece (he carries three watches, showing Friedrichshafen. Greenwich and New York time), arched his mephistophelian brows, and hastened to the first Hamburg-American liner available for Hamburg. A Hamburg-American it had to be, for that company aided Graf Zeppelin in her world flight. The first boat was the slow New York, which takes ten days for the crossing. As the indom- itable, tired oldster (he is 61) boarded her, his grey...
...With James McKeen Cattell (see p. 52) he was one of the late great Psychologist William Max Wundt's first pupils. Later he married the daughter of a Schleswig-Holstein publisher, and did newspaper work himself. On the Frankfurter Zeitung he ridiculed the late Count Ferdinand Zeppelin's dirigible plans, recanted, joined the Zeppelin company, learned navigation, of which he had some skill from childhood at his native town of Flensburg...
...schooners, enthusiastic about this race of the last genuine U. S. sailing ships, had donated $20,000 to recondition canvas and repay owners for lost fish. Thousands lined the shore to watch the stanch, full-rigged craft course twice around an 18-mile triangle into the harbor. In the first two races, gentle inshore winds were insufficient to drive the schooners to the finish within the time limit. In the third, little Portuguese-American Progress gradually overcame Capt. Ben Pine's big Arthur D. Story until on the last lap, tacking along inshore close to the Cape Ann rocks...
...First fired of the 80 events was the Sobel trophy match, side arm competition for policemen. On one of the ranges that project from the three miles of firing line along the lakefront, was set up a double row of false house fronts. Targets swung in the gaping windows and doors, popped up and down in the street. Five keen-eyed Portland, Ore., constables shot them down like fugitives, scored 41 points out of a possible 50, won the match. A four-man team match of the slow and rapid pistol firing was won by New York City policemen...
...match play, Tremayne, Wise, Balding and Earle W. Hopping of the U. S. formed the Eastcotts, lost six out of seven discouraging practice games. In the first game of the Monty Waterbury Cup series, also begun last week at Westbury, and in importance second only to the Open, the National Junior Championship youngsters who call themselves the Old Aikens trounced them 16-8. Old Aikens' victory coupled with the early elimination of the Englishmen in the Open series discouraged polo-observers from predicting formidable 1930 opposition from overseas...