Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Over Long Island, last week, Lieut. Maxwell W. Balfour and Lieut. John H. McCormack were testing a Curtiss falcon preparatory to accepting it for the Army. They put it into a roll at 3,000 feet. The wings crumpled and the fuselage "flew right out of the wings" they said. Calmly they turned off the ignition (to prevent fire in the crash) and jumped out with parachutes. The fuselage came to earth in the stables of the Meadow Brook Club, killing two polo ponies: Gay Boy, used in the International Cup Play last autumn by Malcolm Stevenson, and Anaconda, also...
Miss Boll, on Long Island, consoled herself with Oliver C. Le Boutillier and Captain Arthur Argles, War aces. Miss Earhart, at Trepassey, Newfoundland, admired the scenery. Both made false starts; both panted at the leash of bad weather...
...women, many of them long unaccustomed to the swish of academic robes around their legs, have been marching in mortarboard caps at commencement exercises of U. S. colleges and universities. They are the recipients of honorary degrees-kudos conferred because of their position, service to humanity, or wealth...
Such a community, self-respecting and of a serious turn of mind, heard last week that a local boy had made good in his own home town. For Frank Ernest Gannett, long a power in Rochester by virtue of his evening paper, the Times-Union, rose to the ranks of the city's greatest, stood close beside Cameraman Eastman, when he went last week to his bankers and borrowed most or all of $3,500,000 to buy the Democrat and Chronicle...
...lineage. It is devoted to the cause of good Republicanism and Mr. Gannett will not interfere. He reassures the doubtful: "It is my belief that a newspaper publisher should be free from any political ambitions. . . . The editor of the Democrat and Chronicle . . . will not have to obey orders ... so long as he is intellectually honest, sincere, fair, tolerant and clean. I do not care fundamentally for money . . . have no special interests ... no axes to grind...