Word: loops
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Government will then seek new men to overtake England in the progress of flying. Their will be no scarcity of pilots; thousands will learn to loop and dive if given the chance. But places for good aeronautical engineers will be more difficult to fill. Until the demand for them is satisfied. America cannot lead in aviation...
...little chasse monoplane machines, and have finished acrobatics. Some sensations! The vrille or spinning nose dive, where the machine falls perpendicularly, spinning around, its longitudinal axis as it falls; the renversement where you give a jerk and a kick which flops you on your back and then complete the loop and come out traveling in the opposite direction, the quickest way to turn around; and lastly, the side slip, where you turn the machine on its side till the wings are vertical and just plain fall without any supporting surface. It is the quickest way to lose altitude...
Whether the agreement is to mean anything, depends entirely on the club members. Such a matter cannot be reduced to specific regulations. There are bound to be loop-holes. It rests with the clubs, whether these loop-holes will be used and the purpose of the agreement, in part, at least defeated. But the men in the clubs have given their words that they will see that the agreement is enforced and this should be sufficient to make it an effective measure in the campaign for class unity...
...have been talked over at great length with the local company officials and problems have been presented which it is impossible to solve until one game has been played and the transportation needs of the crowd discovered. Cars going out Chapel street to Derby avenue will use the same loop as formerly on Derby avenue, while cars going out Edgewood avenue will be provided with a loop to be constructed shortly, which will let them come back by the same route. It is impossible for the trolley company to do at present all it intends to do, as the problem...
...situation in regard to the cheering section at the Princeton game and the special-rate boat for the trip is serious--or it would be if we could be sure the evidence were complete. The one loop-hole is the very probable chance that it is carelessness on the part of those really intending to go to the game that accounts for the facts cited elsewhere. In order that the truth may be known--even though it may be unpleasant--at all events let us know how many loyal supporters the team has; let all who really are going sign...