Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Club members now abroad include Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews who sailed for inner Mongolia fortnight ago; Gene Lamb in Tibet; Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey leading his "dude" expedition down the Amazon. Lincoln Ellsworth was last week preparing a 1932 flight with Bernt Bal-chen across Antarctica. Sir George Hubert Wilkins sailed from Manhattan last week for, it was said, a conference with Premier Benito Mussolini concerning another submarine trip toward the North Pole...
...only horse who won more money than Twenty Grand last season was his owner's nephew's filly Top Flight. Her winnings-$219,000-were a world's record for two-year-olds. Top Flight was a favorite for this week's Kentucky Derby until last week when, in her first race of the season, the Wood Memorial at Jamaica, she finished fourth. Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney withdrew Top Flight from the list of Derby entrants...
...eligibles. Her daughter-in-law Mrs. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney hired Lavelle ("Buddy") Ensor to ride her entry Stepenfechit. Col. E. R. Bradley, who owns "Bradley's" (gambling casino) at Palm Beach and a racing stable at Lexington and who had predicted the downfall of Top Flight, still thought Mrs. Louise G. Kaufman's Tick On would be the horse to beat...
...since August. Riggers have been busy scraping and painting the hull, re-doping the great wing. Mechanics have reconditioned the twelve 600-h. p. Curtiss Conqueror motors, stepped them up 50 h. p. apiece. Last week Captain Friedrich Christiansen announced that DO-X would take off for the return flight to Europe via Newfoundland and the Azores about...
...could the 232 ft. 11⅝ in. accepted world record of Swedish E. H. Lundquist. Then, wearied, he walked across the athletic field. A javelin returned through the air struck him in the back of the head. It stuck there, quivering with the force of flight. The boy reached back and plucked the weapon from his skull, ran a quarter-mile to the college infirmary. From there he was transported to Portland. It seemed he would live...