Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enemy's goal, eleven in various stations around the field and designated as "fielders," twelve who roved with the ball and were called "bulldogs." As in the great original game, Rutgers won, 6-4, by a smart stratagem. Finding the tall Princetonians could beat them when the ball flew high by batting it over Rutgers heads with their hands, the Rutgers team kept it on the ground and scuttled through to victory...
Couriers. As dawn broke over the airport at Victoria, B. C. one day last week two swift Army pursuit planes roared into the air, flew eastward on an impressive mission. The leader, Lieut. Irvin A. Woodring, sole survivor of the Army's famed "Three Musketeers" flying team (TIME, May 5), carried a despatch case containing Japanese Emperor Hirohito's ratification of the London Naval Treaty. The document had been speeded across the Pacific by the steamer Hikawa Maru, 12 hr. ahead of schedule, had to sail out of New York aboard the Leviathan four days later in order...
...Victor Bruce was loafing along in easy jumps. Flight Lieut. C. W. Hill, another Australian, flew his Moth into Surabaya, Java two days ahead of Hinkler's schedule. But there Kingsford-Smith, who left England four days behind, was close on his tail. The two were nearly even for the last hazardous lap across the Timor Sea. Then Lieut. Hill was forced down on the Island of Timor and, in trying to take off again, his plane overturned. The Southern Cross Jr., sweeping past Timor in an attempted nonstop dash to Port Darwin, ran into headwinds and was also...
Fast Frank Hawks. Captain Frank Monroe Hawks, air publicist for The Texas Co.,* last week flew the 90 mi. from Philadelphia to New York in 20 min.?an unofficial record. In the past fortnight he also: flew Detroit to Manhattan (483 mi.) in 2 hr. 41 min.; Boston to Manhattan...
...quell them, only to catch the disease themselves. Denial seemed to lend authority. Some firms sent memorandums to all employes, warning them that to discuss another firm's financial position, even among themselves, was a breach that could not be tolerated. But as stocks kept falling, the stories flew faster. Weakness in certain issues, notably Fox, corresponded with rumors concerning houses sponsoring them. Cause and Effect became confused...