Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practically a complete triumph for the modernists" and "filled with bad painting." "Modernism" being a verbal shinny-can long since whanged out of all shape or precision, art-lovers went to see for themselves. Most of them concluded that the Institute's 17th, representing many of the top-flight artists of 14 nations, was indeed contemporary but well up to its lively standard...
...diminished fifteenfold by scientific streamlining of the club head, the shape (except for the face of the club) conforming to airship hull contours tested in wind tunnels. Declared Dr. Crooker: "Dynamic and ballistic analyses, checked by field tests, prove the low-resistance [streamlined] club increases the free flight distance of the golf ball by 15 yards, which means a golfer like Jimmy Thomson using the streamlined club should attain a carry of 275 yards...
...boat got under way. Most plausible of a welter of rumors-including one, later proved false, that he had been seen boarding a steamer for Europe-was advanced by a Norwalk, Conn, house painter who claimed he had heard a plane over Long Island Sound same day Whitfield took flight. The plane's motor sputtered, said he, then died, and he thought it might have dropped into the Sound. By last week's end private searchers had given up. Meantime, while Andrew Whitfield 's father & mother remained in Virginia, Brother John scoffed at hints of suicide, told...
Lewin Barringer is considered in soaring circles one of the most careful gliders. Before a flight he pores over charts, plans alternate routes, prepares for every contingency of weather. One of ten in the U. S. to hold a Silver C License (international gliding license), he is also licensed to fly transport planes. The most ardent sailing enthusiasts, sea and sky, take to motor ships when they want to get somewhere...
Aranda to the Sea! If the Leftist flight in the Pyrenees sector continues, the Rightists will soon have detached Leftist Spain from France, cut off the flood of French and Soviet munitions through France. This is Rightist Objective No. 1, would almost certainly decide the war. Last week Rightist Objective No. 2 was to complete the drive to the sea and definitely cut Leftist Spain in twain, although to all intents & purposes Generalissimo Francisco Franco accomplished this when Italian Fascist Militia fought down the Ebro River Valley, besieged the town of Tortosa (TIME, April...