Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minutes after Duke's first demonstration of power, Georgia Tech took the ball on its own 35-yd. line, and in ten plays scored a touchdown. That flight was also a sample of the afternoon's play. It began with a 33-yd. forward pass, followed by a forward from Quarterback Sims to End Jordan who lateraled to Guard Wilcox for a first down on the 18-yd. line. Before the afternoon was out Georgia Tech had completed eleven passes, many of them breath-taking forward-laterals and lateral-forwards, for gains averaging over 15 yards apiece...
...last week most of the top-flight cowboys of the North American rodeo circuit circulated around Broadway movie theatres and bars, wearing at the Garden's special behest the widest hats and brightest shirts they could buy. As contestants in what is one of the most unprofitable as well as one of the riskiest of sports, rodeo cowboys average about $3,000 a year in prize money, spend most of it on traveling expenses, clothes, entry fees, hospital bills. Few, therefore, can afford to pass up the Madison Square Garden rodeo, which offers the season's biggest total...
...example of the first or literal type would be Mr. Lougee's sketch of an abstract conception of "Pillar of Society." Here, he shows a strong, distinguished, hardened face in the foreground, with other smaller and shadier faces behind. The flight of the author's imagination has showed a shady pen in the background, indicating that the "pillar" of respectability may have made his riches through smuggling rum. The whole piece gives the impression of a sinful past to the strong central figure...
Referring to "Flight v. Glide" [TIME, Aug. 30] I can add further testimony that flying fish fly, and sometimes fly high...
...force -to get what it wants. Significantly, it was on Chesapeake Bay ten years ago that a group of U. S. newspapermen, tossing in a small boat, made the first contact with another diffident news character, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, homeward bound on the cruiser U.S.S. Memphis after his flight to Paris. Just as in 1927, a boatload of reporters had been out all night in a motor launch named Pirate just in case the City of Norfolk suddenly dropped Mr. Justice Black before docking at Norfolk. Only result of this precaution, as it turned out, was that the Pirate...