Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Provence mistral with a log of slowly waning fuel and gradually mounting flying time, last week went the Question Mark, red-painted French Breguet airplane, in search of a new endurance record. Piloted by Dieudonné ("Doudou") Costes and his companion Paul Codos, it made its way over flat-roofed, smelly Marseilles, to time-broken Avignon, to musty Narbonne, and then over the same route again. For 52 hours and 34 minutes the Breguet's motor snorted along. Then with a last puff and snort, the ship touched ground gently at her starting point, Istres Aerodrome near Marseilles...
...keep the other chap from dropping him. Deft adaptation and direction by George Abbott make the little story pleasant up to this point, and the tenth-of-a-second shot of what the acrobat does next welds it into drama. Its drawbacks are Buddy Rogers' continuous ingenuousness, occasional flat lines, overacting by the "bit" characters, and the fact that its central situation is frankly appropriated from the great German film Variety. A good shot: pretty, wiry Jean Arthur in a silk afternoon gown doing a stunt on the trapeze...
Detroit Cougars. Agile Goalie "Flat"' Walsh, stickmen Hay and Cooper, fighters Laurie Aurie and Noble, have been playing below form...
Whittling out duck decoys first gave Chris Smith the idea for a motorboat that would be short, broad, flat so as to ride on top of the water instead of cutting through it. This revolutionary design, now largely used in speed boats, produced the first boats to make 60 m. p. h. in a contest. In designing his early boats, Chris Smith used no blue prints. Instead, he carved out a small wooden model of the hull. With this in his pocket he went to nearby Walpole Island, picked out a likely looking tree for his boat, and carefully watched...
...young lawyer in Budapest, with a wife and infant child, has just recovered from an illness and is looking for a job when the World War breaks out. He unheroically volunteers (he has flat feet). To his great surprise he is accepted, goes to training camp, then to the front, is captured by the Russians, and, in company with thousands of German and Austrian prisoners, is sent from one prison camp to another, finally landing in Siberia. There, for almost six years, he stays...