Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Serge Koussevitzky, will give a concert tonight in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock. The program includes Bach's "Concerto for Orchestra in D major." Wagner's "Bacchanale." Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Flight of the Bumble Bee," and Brahm's Symphony No. 4 in E minor...
Communists' Flight. The immediate result of the dissolution was the frantic haste with which the 62 Communists dashed out of the building and sought their funk-holes in various parts of Germany. The reason was that as soon as the Reichstag had been dissolved, they, ipso facto, were no longer deputies and therefore were not immune from arrest...
Last week the Italian Government put to flight these notions. It recognized all titles bestowed by the Popes since 1870 and decided that they and any future creations shall be considered in every way equivalent to titles given by the Italian King. Moreover for a simple fee any Papal noble can have his name placed in the Golden Book of Italian nobility...
...Solitary flight is lonely with nothing to break the monotony of blue sky and clear airs. News from England shows that light-plane builders recognize the need of sociability; and at a recent meet at Lympne, two-seater "chummy-fly-abouts" made their appearance for the first time. With a 30 horsepower engine, the curiously named Wee-Bee 1 made a speed of 70 m.p.h., with a mileage of 36 to the gallon, carrying a pilot and passenger of ordinary weight...
...Miles. The ZR-3 reached Lakehurst, N. J., without a mishap, after a flight of 5,060 miles from Friedrichshafen in South Germany. She broke every record of distance and speed for airships of any type, from any country. For the first time, mail and freight from Berlin reached Manhattan in less than five days: messages of goodwill, a tabloid edition of the VÖssische Zeitung, a sack of 1,000 toys for Wanamaker's famed department store, a walking doll for Major Frank M. Kennedy's little daughter...