Word: jumps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mail started its night flying service July 1, 1924. In spite of pessimistic predictions, its pilots managed to fly 1,200,000 miles without the loss of a life. A fatal parachute jump has now broken the record of safety. Clarence O. Gilbert, a onetime flying Army sergeant, was in the Air Mail pilot's reserve and was pressed into service during the holiday rush. He flew away from May wood Field, Chicago, at 7:10 one evening and, sailing westward, encountered a blinding snowstorm near Kaneville, Ill. His motor failed. A pilot under such conditions is helpless...
...faced by a quandary: "We have promised the post office employes to increase their pay. If we don't, they will do for us certainly. We have promised to stand by Coolidge and economy?that means raising rates, second class in particular. If we do that, the press will jump on our necks...
Yale got the jump at the start when the pony of one of the University players kicked the ball into the Crimson's goal. The first period ended with the score at 2 to 1 in favor of the Yale horsemen. During the next two periods the score was tied to four goals apiece...
...years. An attempt to elect a new Senator at this time would be too dangerous for the Republicans, after the unusual showing made by Senator David I. Walsh, who has just been defeated by Mr. Gillett for Massachusetts' other seat in the Senate and who would doubtless jump at the chance of a new contest. The Republican senior member in the Senate is now Senator Francis E. Warren of Wyoming; but the floor leadership will probably go to another without any objection on Mr. Warren's part. Mr. Lodge's other important post, the Chairmanship...
...Broad Jump.--Won by O. V. Wederbrand '25, (6 in.), 20 ft., 2 3-4 in.; second, S. R. Jones '27, (scratch), 20 ft., 1 3-4 in.; third, Morton Smith...