Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...replace him as dean of the Princeton Graduate School, the trustees last week chose Lieut.-Col Augustus Trowbridge, Princeton professor of physics from 1906 to 1924. For the past three years he has been adviser to the International Education Board in appropriating money to develop scientific research in European institutions. Last week he was in Paris...
...Bouncer. Lieut, L. E. Hunting's plane was guilty of treachery, but the flyer returned good for evil. Going into a tail spin at low altitude, the plane hit the ground, bounced, but somehow he held it in the air. Realizing the landing gear was crushed, he scorned the safety of his parachute, circled, flew to nearby Kelly Field (San Antonio, Tex.)' and eased the ship down so gently that it stopped virtually undamaged...
...sight, that he turned a steam jet on the paper; made the false line visible. Last week the Aero Club of France, at a private hearing, divested Flyer Callizo of his record and disqualified him for life from French air competition. The altitude mark reverts to Lieut. C. C. Champion, U. S., who has been up 38,550 ft. without the aid of invisible...
...Upavon, 75 miles away, Captain Hamilton and his flight companion Lieut. Col. Frederick F. Minchin, denied reports that they would take a passenger. Skeptics noted a wicker chair fastened by one leg to the floor of the ship's tiny cabin. Not many hours later, just after dawn, these skeptics saw piled around the wicker chair two brief cases, two red hat boxes and a little wicker basket...
...book contains an emotional foreword by U. S. Ambassador to France Myron Timothy Herrick; and an account of the Lindbergh receptions in Europe and the U. S. (entitled "A Little of What the World Thought of Lindbergh") by Lieut. Commander Fitzhugh Green of the U. S. Navy, able journalist...