Word: low
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hour later I saw land. . . . I flew quite low enough over Ireland to be seen, but apparently no great attention was paid...
...either side of the French stadium, the white wall of the amphitheatre is low enough to let the beholder see over it into the still-smoking battlefields, seen as from a high hill in geographically exact detail. Within the wall, which is divided into panels by inscribed monuments, stand leading representatives of the Allied Nations, grouped on shallow steps, with each nation's name engraved on a smooth tablet...
...tachometre to make sure that the engine is making a sufficient number of revolutions per minute.* Then he pushes the joy stick forward slightly to get the plane's tail skid off the ground, pulls it backward and the plane rises. Green pilots sometimes try to elevate a low-powered plane too abruptly. The result is that the engine cannot lift the plane at the angle of the elevator. The plane loses flying speed, slips downward, is likely to crash. A passenger in a well-launched plane from a smooth runway is hardly aware that he has left...
Half of the race was over last week, and Whiskery was looking like one of those who also-ran. Far ahead were Jock of Publisher Edward B. McLean's stable and Osmond of Joseph E. Widener's and a dozen other three-year-olds. Then Jockey McAtee crouched low and hugged; Whiskery began to whisk until he whisked across the finish line, a nose ahead of Osmond. Jock was third...
...Time100, 6 3 9 4-5220 4 5 21 1-5440 4 5 49 3-5880 8 1 1.56Mile 8 1 4.242 Miles 5 4 9.35High Hurdles 0 9 15 4-5Low Hurdles 3 6 25 3-5Ht. or Dist.Shot 8 1 45.6Discus 6 3 133.6Javelin 3 6 187.Hammer 8 1 142.5Pole Vault 2-3 8 1-3 13Broad Jump 6 3 23.2High Jump...