Word: flyer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fringed the mountain ridges. Lieutenants Smith and Williams, suddenly lost to each other, swung off on separate courses. Late in the afternoon they reached Selfridge Field, 40 minutes apart, and were surprised not to find Flyer Bettis there before them. An hour passed; the sun sank, and still no Bettis. It looked odd. Flyer Bettis, winner of last year's Pulitzer Race, was no man to loaf along. . . . Lieutenants Smith and Williams left Michigan in the dark, for Pennsylvania...
John Augustus Rodgers, San Francisco-Honolulu flyer Master of Aeronautical Science
...looks and gentle manners, took him away in an automobile, deserted him on a lonely highroad. The puppy made his way back. Finding that the beast survived even his own natural inclination to sniff at whirling propellers and perform in the path of descending planes, this flyer, one Waldo Robey, pilot of the Porterfield Flying School, took him 800 feet up in a plane, dropped him overboard. The diminutive body, smashed to pulp, buried itself a foot deep in the earth. . . . "Just a little prank," said Pilot Robey, grinning uneasily. E. E. Porterfield Jr. (head of the Porterfield Flying School...
...furlong trials were won by Russell, Miller, House of U. S. C., Barber, and Charles of Colgate, another double winner. The Cornell flyer lived up to his reputation as last year's champion by turning in the best time, 21 7-10 seconds, without a close follower. Russell is at his best over the 220 yard distance and runs beautifully at the finish. Lun dell forced Barber to the finish line in the second heat to take second place by inches...
They moved out of Kings Bay one dazzling polar morning, their silver ship soaring over an ocean of crystal glare. Their northward course was slightly west of the line taken by Flyer Byrd two days previously (TIME, May 17). The day was to be Ellsworth's birthday and he wondered whether fortune would bring him the present he longed for- new land, Ellsworth Land...