Word: flyer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...provisions of the bill are so framed that ultimately every man in the Air Service will be a flyer, that at least a fifth of the pilots shall be enlisted men, that there will be an equitable promotion list for air officers, that there will be some eight instead of three flying officers on the General Staff (composed of 93 officers), that the Chief of the Air Service must be an actual flying officer...
...Miller '27 lived up to expectations and succeeded in lopping a fifth of a second from his own record in the 100 yard dash, when he led Glendenning to the tape by four feet in an even ten second performance. The Dartmouth flyer, who was expected to challenge Miller again in the furlong race pulled a tendon in the broad jump and was unable to compete. Miller, because of this, was dropped out of the 220 yard final. F. P. Kane '20 returned a double winner and a record smasher, in two beautiful races. He established a new quarter mile...
...Madrid in two planes. They were to keep hopping until they reached Manila in the Philippines. They received word that in crossing Japan the military authorities would not allow them to land on the Island of Formosa. But Japan's warning proved unnecessary. Landing at Macao, Asiatic Portugal, one flyer struck a tree; his comrade's plane was missing. Companions in another plane had been confounded crossing the turbulent air-passages of hot Arabia, had descended in a sandstorm, been rescued after exposure to fierce hunger and thirst...
Knowing Capt. Wilkins for a persistent and resourceful man (he plans to live in the polar regions largely on what game can be shot), and knowing Chief Pilot Eielson for an indefatigable flyer (singlehanded he overcame a hundred vicissitudes of the North, flew 60,000 unaccompanied miles in the Alaskan air mail service), U. S. airmen had no doubt that the expedition would be pushed ahead notwithstanding...
...high lights of the competition will be the 70-yard sprint event in which Miller will also certainly clash with Frank Hussey, holder of the National A. A. U. 100-yard title who will compete for Boston College. The Crimson sprint star has bested the Boston College flyer consistently this season in the shorter dashes, but Hussey comes fast after the 50-yard mark and has been clocked in close to record time in this event. He has been trained carefully this season and has just reached the top of his stride...