Word: gees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meet, designers had been working for a year, building fat little craft with stubby low wings. Into the California dawn roared five such craft: Clair Vance's Flying Wing, Jimmy Wedell, Jimmy Haizlip and Roscoe Turner in Wedell-Williams Speedsters, Lee Gehlbach in a stubby "Gee-Bee" (Granville Bros.). Over the Mojave Desert Vance had to drop out his cockpit awash with gasoline from a leaking tank...
...Gee, I like the way your magazine clicked on young Mr. Cord. This human dynamo deserves everything you said about him. As far as some bluenoscs giving your rag the quit, you know this is a lot of bologny. This reason, well, where would they get the news as TIME gives it to them. ''Try and get it.'' A little dynamic expression will not harm the best of us. In fact, there is a lot of us that need a stick of dynamite set off under us these days...
...refused to see Miss Walsh (his comment: "The hell with her") ; but to the end he supplied a certain amount of drama of his own kind. He bade a friendly farewell to the warden whose broken wrist was in a sling. Said he: "Gee, I feel sorry for you." (The warden, for the first time in his twelve years administration, did not attend the execution.) He walked grinning to the chair, told one of the guards that one of the electrodes against his leg did not seem tight enough, and he died...
...Baltimore relief ball Baritone Lawrence Tibbett sang "Cuban Love Song" from his latest cinema, got tremendous publicity when six women fainted. One pushed her way through the mob, tremblingly touched his cheek, swooned at his feet. "Gee whiz!" said Baritone Tibbett, "that...
Bayles v. the Clock. Official timing cameras of the Federation of Aeronautique Internationale clicked at Wayne County Airport, Mich, while Pilot Lowell Bayles flew his fat little Gee-Bee racer four times around official pylons 1.8 mi. apart. When Pilot Bayles landed his average speed had apparently smashed the world's landplane record of 278.4 m. p. h., held by France. On one lap he was checked at 295.86. Final calculations, however, gave him an average of only 281.9, less than the 4.97 margin allowed him to receive official credit. Moreover, no record would have been allowed because...