Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vast area incognita. No one knows if it is aqua incognita or terra incognita. It seems important to find out, not merely to satisfy human curiosity, but because, with aviation advancing, a nation finding land there might have an air base, for purposes military or commercial, within 24 hours' flight of nearly all cities in the Northern Hemisphere...
...Duke Karl Theodor of Bavaria, the famous philanthropist and eye doctor. . . . The Queen like all the Wittelsbachs is many-sided in her accomplishments: she is a clever violinist, a great reader, an admirable horsewoman, a good shot. . . . She is the only 'flying' Queen, and she thinks as little of flight as most people do of a ride in an omnibus...
...Brown Herald regards the action as "a blow that adroitly puts to flight the false hopes we fostered for the future of athletics". The comment goes...
...comes a blow that helps shake the cobwebs from our brains, shatter the illusions that clouded our reason, and adroitly puts to flight the false hopes we fostered for the future of athletics. Football is to become an even larger source of revenue for great universities, a more important factor in the commercial life of institutions for the development of 'educated men' and leaves still farther behind its career as a great game, when played for sport, before tainted with professionalism...
...South America has aroused considerable commotion in the Spanish court. But whether or not he goes, the gesture is significant of Spain's intention to draw closer to the countries of Latin America. Moreover, the enthusiastic reception accorded by his fellow Latins to Commandant Franco in his recent flight illustrates a reciprocal attitude across the South Atlantic...