Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Transatlantic mail service offers a great opportunity for American enterprise. For this purpose we must make it possible to pick up burdens on the wing, in order that a plane could start on its trip across the Atlantic with a full load of baggage and comparatively light supply of fuel. Passing over its mother ships stationed along the route it could pick up supplies of fuel from the mastheads. This is not as impractical as it seems. In the fall of 1918 I succeeded in picking up a load of 150 pounds in a flight by means of an elastic...
...aside from the sporting element contained in such an affair, its effect on the public would be very great. Aviation would be thrust upon people in a new and pleasing light, tending to create a strong sentiment throughout the country for placing this industry on its proper footing. Since the government refuses to help aviation by its failure to pass the fifteen million dollar appropriation fund, all stimulus must come from private sources. And which of these latter are more suited for the task than the colleges...
...Freshman eleven at 10.30 today renews its annual conflict with the Eli yearlings at New Haven. The chances of victory seem evenly divided, although on a wet field, Yale's superior, weight will give them a slight advantage. Where the Crimson team is light and fast the Yale eleven is clumsy and slow to get started...
Rain, for the second time this week, kept practice for the University eleven comparatively light yesterday. Although Coach Fisher has no intention of submitting his first-string men to the possibility of injury before the annual classic with Yale, yet the drill so far has consisted of little more than signal practice...
...preparation for the Tufts game, both teams A and B ran through a dummy scrimmage with Coach Knox's men, who were equipped with characteristic Tufts plays. As it is the last practice before the contest Saturday, the workout today will be very light...