Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cinemactor (The Silent Enemy, TIME, May 26). Another pupil, one for whom the instruction was exceedingly brief (after he and his teacher had flown together for only three hours the pupil went up solo, record brevity for civilian flying), was Elmer Ambrose Sperry, 36, inventor of the artificial horizon for airplanes, youngest son of the late great Elmer Ambrose Sperry (TIME, June 23), younger brother of the late famed Pilot Lawrence Sperry who was drowned in the English Channel (TIME, Dec. 24, 1923). The eldest Sperry son, Edward Goodman, is not a pilot, nor is the Sperry daughter, Mrs. Robert...
...will, at least for the moment. What with a double holiday on the horizon, the Vagabond feels that something ought to be done to get the undergraduate out of the local excavations. His mail stated that no remarks about such commonplaces as New York Night Clubs, Wanderings amid the Widener Turnstiles and such ilk would be tolerated. The letter expressly stated that this column should discuss "Quaint, Quotable, and Out-of-the-Way Spots Having an Aura of Originality...
...Vagabond has given up his bounding and sauntering about these days for countless reasons, one of which, or perchance several, are the divisional examinations in Shakespeare, the Bible, and Ancient Authors all of which are looming large on the horizon to plague the prodigal senior. In fact, this valiant columnist forgets all about lending his expert tutelage in matters pertaining to interesting lectures, and seriously sets about the business of aiding the fourth year men in jumping this rather nasty curricular hurdle...
Their battle practically won, the flyers found little thrill in the flight down the coast until the outlines of Long Island crept over the horizon. Then came the full joy of triumph. They landed at Curtiss-Wright Airport, first to make the flight that had cost the lives of ten before them, beginning with their countrymen Charles Nungesser and François Coli. Among the first to congratulate Coste & Bellonte in the wild crowd of 10,000 that swept over the field and stormed their hangar refuge was Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...flight, as every layman knows, is immeasurably more difficult largely because of prevailing headwinds. The Question Mark, radio equipped, had a 650 h. p. Hispano-Suiza motor and a top speed close to 160 m. p. h. Its instrument panel, with more than 30 dials including the invaluable "artificial horizon," offered practically every known aid to navigation. Yet even with weather conditions unusually good, with tail winds for much of the way, with such crack airmen as Coste & Bellonte at the controls, the Question Mark was forced to fly 4,100 mi. at an average speed...