Word: londoner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...news that Harry Hawker and his navigator Grieve, the daring pair who tried to be the first to cross the Atlantic by airplane, are safe again on English soil and were royally feted on their arrival last night in London cannot fail to appeal to the American imagination as much as to the British. A man who, unlike our more cautious United States Navy filers, "took all the chances" in a daredevil attempt to do what many air-men considered next to impossible, impressed American and British sportsmanship to the same high degree. From the moment of Hawker's sensational...
...great kindred nations feel keenly how like they are, one to the other, in their basic love of good sportsmanship. He has brought Britain and America closer, perhaps, than ever before, thus imparting even more life and substance to the cordial and brotherly words uttered by President Wilson in London and Manchester last December...
...archaeological expert, will deliver the Charles Eliot Norton Memorial lecture in the Fogg Art Museum this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. His subject is "Loss and Recovery of Greek Sculpture," and the lecture will be open to the public. Professor Gardner is Yates Professor of Archaeology in University College, London University, and is the author of several works on Greek...
...with adversity a short distance off the coast of Ireland, the greatest part of the broad Atlantic was successfully crossed. Although we should liked to have seen the American Navy carry off the honor of first accomplishing the almost incredible flight, we hope that the judges of the "London Daily Mail" transatlantic contests will recognize the momentous significance of being pioneers in such a hazardous enterprise, and award the Australian aviators the $50,000 which they deserve for virtually accomplishing the tremendous task they undertook...
...work under Mr. Moore. Howe was manager of the University crew in 1917, and has just been discharged, from the artillery of the United States Army, where he served as the captain. He will be the graduate in charge of the trip of the University Crews to New London this June...