Word: gee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fastest? While Pilot Lowell R. Bayles flashed back & forth over the Wayne County Airport course (Detroit) in a special Gee-Bee (Grantville Bros.) racer, an unofficial stopwatch caught his speed at 307 m.p.h. Pilot Bayles is preparing for an official attempt to break the world's landplane record of 278.48 m.p.h..made in 1924 by Warrant Officer Bonnett of France...
...respectable surroundings with his mother. Cooper is unwilling to go. To make him less unwilling, Beery gives him a blow across the face, then smashes his own hand against the side of his cell. Even this mistreatment does not discourage little Cooper. Presently he is back, muttering, "Aw gee!" with sniveling, or sometimes gay, affection. Finally there arrives Beery's comeback as a fighter. He shuffles into the ring in a torn bathrobe, defeats what is supposed to be a first-class boxer in a struggle which will seem a little absurd to anyone who has ever seen...
...Oregon, beaten 53 to 0 by Southern California, went up against N. Y. U., considered one of the East's strongest teams. The score?14 to 6?failed to reveal fully Oregon's superiority. Mark Temple started the game with Oregon's first touchdown, passed to a confrere named Gee for the second, kicked both extra points...
...Gee, Mr. Yale, leave us our generalizations anyhow. --The Dartmouth...
Three days later, another flyer made a record in the No. 1 event of National Air Race week at Cleveland, the 100-mi. Thompson Trophy Race. Lowell Bayles, onetime coal miner, of Springfield, Mass., flying a Gee-Bee speedster, covered the 100 miles in 25 min. 23:88 sec. His average speed, 236 m.p.h., was 35 m.p.h. better than the late Charles W. ("Speed") Holman's when he won the race a year...