Word: hoppin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Representative Thaddeus Campbell Sweet of New York telephoned Bolling Field one afternoon last week and asked Lieutenant Bushrod Hoppin, U. S. A., to fly him to Oswego, N. Y., where he was to make a speech. Such calls from Congressmen are encouraged by the War and Navy Departments. Lieut. Hoppin did not get the Representative's name very clearly but proceeded at once with preparations. They took off after breakfast next morning, in a new Army observation plane. By late-luncheon time, the plane was a wreck and Representative Sweet was dead...
...Lieut. Hoppin, known as a careful pilot,* met a nasty-looking rain squall between Binghamton and Cortland, N. Y. He thought it best to land and selected a field on a stock farm. The field was knobbly. The ship bounced and turned a somersault. Mr. Sweet, having unbuckled his safety-belt, was pitched against the cockpit wall. A head blow killed him. Lieut. Hoppin, belted in his seat, was unbruised...
...August issue of the Forum, Frederick S. Hoppin gives an able description of balloon jumping, looks into the future: "Why should we not in time perfect a moderate sized knapsack filled with some highly volatile non-inflammable gas which, strapped comfortably to our back, would be able to lift some 20, 30, or 40 pounds off our burden of flesh? ... If we should ever have knapsacks of unlimited power, our whole present day world will be turned upI side down. ... All the legislatures will be busily engaged in passing laws prohibiting people from leaving the earth too freely, or rules...
...Henry Russell Hitchcock Jr. '24 of Plymouth; John McAndrew '24 of New York; Hazard McClellan Clarke '25 of Buffffalo, N. Y.; and George Hoppin Humphreys '25 of Cambridge...
...value in the field of scholarship, including such series as the Harvard Historical Studies, the Harvard Economic Studies, the Harvard Oriental Series, the Harvard Business Studies, and the Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature. Among works published by the Press and not strictly included in this category should be mentioned Hoppin's "Euthymides and His Fellows" and "A Handbook of Attic Red-Figured Vases," Beazley's "Attic Red-Figured Vases in American Museums," Courtney Langdon's translation of Dante, Professor Kittredge's "The Old Farmer and His Almanack," Professor Grandgent's "Old and New," Hillyer's "Sonnets and Other Lyrics...