Word: looping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pierre Fronval looped 1,111 consecutive, uninterrupted loops, in 4 hrs. 56 min. at Velizy airdrome outside Paris. Each loop was followed by an official hammer blow delivered by an Aero Club representative upon a wooden table. A French notary legalized the record by stamping the Republic's seal upon the table. When the U. S. record of 1,093 loops in six hours was passed the crowd cheered as Frenchmen cheer champions. A Hispano-Suiza motor, the make used by Costes and Lebrix, and a Morane plane endured the strain...
Flames. At San Diego, Calif., Lieutenant Frank C. Sutton was looping the loop. At the top of the curve the plane puffed smoke; burst into flames. Lieutenant Sutton, hot, jumped; floated down under a parachute...
...Chicago, one of the motorcycle policemen in his honking, roaring, droning, whizzing escort fell off his machine and was badly hurt. Last week some gas merchants held a convention in Chicago and one of their honking, droning, whizzing, roaring escort ran down and hurt two women in the crowded Loop district. Last week also, Prince Wilhelm of Sweden visited Chicago. Before arriving he begged the Chicago police not to insist upon a honking, droning, whizzing, roaring escort for him; not, at least, to equip the escort with sirens. Prince Wilhelm said that he would find "such a racket very annoying...
...advances of young, sleek, oily, lusty freight-pushers. The Exhibition began when some Indians, who were really porters and ticket takers on the Baltimore & Ohio, went whooping loudly past the grandstand. Then came stage coaches, one of which had been lent by Comedian Fred Stone. Then, on the loop of tracks, came a reproduction of Tom Thumb, the first of all steam engines, driven by an imitation of its inventor (Peter Cooper), dressed in breeches too bright for a hard-working engineer. After this a proud little ponyish Yorkshire engine that panted first in 1831 puffed slowly down the tracks...
Entering the treacherous "loop" stretch of the old course, where the holes criss-cross among wiry gorse and whins, he played the next four holes in twelve shots. He finished the round in 68, tying the course record. He clicked off his next round in 72, forcing players with more than the respectable total of 155 out of play. ? His pluperfect form lapsed to mere perfection in a third round of par 73. He finished with another 72, six strokes ahead of two British professionals?Aubrey Boomer and Fred Robson?who had brilliantly equaled the previous tournament record...