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...Miller was Amherst's chief mainstay; he was especially good on the defensive, time and again his long reach and heavier weight snatching away many Harvard goals...
...Amherst aggregation was somewhat heavier and faster than the Crimson players, and appeared to have more endurance than the Harvard hoopmen...
Beside the shadowy Spirit bulks the heavier black shape of the great Ford-Stout monoplane in which Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh is presently to fly back to her Detroit schoolroom after the family Christmas. Mother and son stand together for a moment, bidding farewell. Col. Lindbergh shakes hands with Gen. Alvarez who brought to him the good-byes of President Plutarco Elias Calles...
...housed after 1200 nautical miles cruising, 700 of them at sea. Newspapers detailed her movements calmly. It did not occur to many readers that December dangers which had drowned the Dawn threatened the dirigible. She was too big, too safe to shrink from weather which might kill a heavier-than-air machine. Some few were perplexed. If dirigibles are so dependable, they wondered, why all this bother about airplanes. Why not build dirigibles instead...
Safety. Hurricanes, electric storms, sudden ground squalls are their enemies. Commander Rosendahl, survivor the Shenandoah smash (TIME, Sept. 14, 1925) believes that the Los Angeles, once in the air, can survive far heavier storms than he permits her to rush. Perhaps, when dirigibles are enlarged, perfected, they will swim the heaviest storms that winds can blow. Helium gas, which fills the bag, will not burn, cannot explode...