Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tufts College (Medford, Mass.) honored itself and Lieutenant Leigh Wade, U. S. Army, with a master's degree in Science for his circummundane airplane flight last year; honored Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay with a Litt.D...
...Norwegian steamer Ingcrtrc, sent to rescue them, dropped anchor in a Spitzbergen fjord. A party of aviators aboard her unlashed their two seaplanes and waited for Amundsen's base ship, the Fram, to come back from the icefloes with a weather report before taking off for a flight to inspect horizons further north...
Explorer Donald B. MacMillan was ci the same opinion. In the midst of final preparations for his own flight to the Pole and to fabulous Crocker Land, MacMillan outlined the rescue work he proposed to carry out before any explorations. After making a base at Etah, Greenland, early in August, he would, he said, take two planes to Cape Columbia to see if Amundsen had reached there. If he had not, the planes would then fly on the line from Cape Columbia...
Three microsplit watches, devised to record the flight of time to 1/100th of a second, ticked stolidly away one broiling afternoon last week in Columbus, Ohio. Developed during the War to time projectiles, these precise recorders of significant brevities were being used for the first time to measure the speed of athletic events. While they ticked, the colleges of the Western Conference competed for the annual track and field championships. A pair of great black legs-flying ebony which provided locomotion for DeHart Hubbard, famed Negro athlete of the University of Michigan-pumped down a narrow aisle 100 yd. long...
Died. James W. Ellsworth, 76, financier of the Amundsen flight and father of Lincoln Ellsworth, com-mander of one of the planes in that flight; in Florence, Italy, of bronchial pneumonia (see SCIENCE...