Word: flier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University on the long-distance team, against F. W. Hilles of Yale. Hilles had the pole and made the first corner, but McCarthy was right on his heels, and showed that he had come back from last year's slump, by holding this position behind the Yale flier until the end of the six laps, when he was only a yard behind. M. H. Wilson, taking the place of Campbell on the Yale team, was second, and opened up a 35-yard lead over W. F. Eaton '22. J. W. Burke '23, running third man for the Crimson, instead...
Thompson will also try to win the low hurdles. Last year he was beaten at the finish by Wells of California, but Wells has not made the trip cast this year, and the Green flier stands a good chance of winning this event, R. W. Fitts '23, the Crimson low hurdle entry, has been doing around 25 seconds all spring, and if he continues it on Friday and Saturday he may be among those to place in the finals, but Smalley of Pennsylvania and Taylor of Princeton, who have beaten him in dual meets, and Henderson of California are also...
...varled and intensely interesting career, ranging from pioneer work in Central Africa to aviation. It is as an aviator, however, that he has gained his reputation, being one of the most experienced men in the British Air Service at the present time. He has been an active flier since 1911, and except for infrequent intervals he was on the wastern front during the whole course of the war. He is now stationed in Washington, as Air Attache to the British Embassy...
...Certainly aerial letter-carrying has not yet reached the point where it can be supported as a private enterprise; government aid is the only source which can keep it going. And until human ingenuity has devised some means of rapid transportation from the postoffice to the airplane itself, the flier will labor under the handicap of time checked up against him before he is actually...