Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dancers. These are often the riff-raff of their profession; the finest tap dancer in the world is Bill Robinson, long a spot of interest on Keith's tours. His feet are as quick as a snare drummer's hands; in Blackbirds he has a double flight of five stairs which, when he trots up and down it, produces a rapid tuneless and delicious music. Bill Robinson makes the show; if he were on the stage more of the time he would make the show a lot better. Not but what Adelaide Hall, with her hoarse, high voice...
Miss Ling Nyi Vee, Chinese student of Wesleyan College at Macon, Ga.. made a non-stop flight from Macon to Shanghai in 24 hours. Alone above the Pacific Ocean she had only crackers and pickles with which to fight hunger. She was forced to fly so high that her radio messages were frozen. When she reached Shanghai she was given a tremendous and well-deserved reception...
Today's races will be the first entered by the Flying Club plane this spring, and the events will include an altitude flight, a speed race, and a parade. A.U. Pabst 31, will do the cross country flying to and from Hartford, and during the meet, it is expected that the Harvard pilots will be W. N. Bump '29, F. P. Sproul '29 and M. N. Fairbanks...
...Harvard Flying Club broke all its previous flight records for one day, when several pilots of that organization remained in the air yesterday for a total of six and one half hours...
...Lowell Memorial, Child Memorial, the German Library, and the other rooms that fringe the top floor of Widener, are sufficiently equipped to house the necessary books in many literature courses. The climb is long, its turns wearying: the elevator is inconveniently placed, and all too often it is in flight when most desired; but the reward is silence, less confusion, generally greater comfort than is possible in the main Reading Room. To many students the special libraries were unknown before the introduction of the Reading Period last January; this spring has seen an increased use of them, and at present...