Word: mins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hours and 21 minutes a creature soared silently, with motionless wings, near Koenigsberg, Germany, one day last week. A thunder shower forced it to earth. It was the glider Goethen, holder of the previous world's record of 5 hr. 40 min. for motorless heavier-than-air craft with pilot and passenger.* It bore Ferdinand Schulz and a companion. Pilot Schulz's skill lies in utilizing air currents after leaving a lofty takeoff, as do eagles and other birds capable of staying aloft for hours with never a wing beat. He declares he is confident...
...Dresser, Cornell 9 22 2-5 Other winners under 9.30 1914--D. F. Potter, Cornell 9 27 1-5 1920--H. H. Brown, Williams 9 27 3-5 1922--Walter Higgins, Columbia 9 28 1-5 1925--W. L. Tibbetts, Harvard 9 26 3-5 Min...
...Miles grinned a broader grin, flung up his arms and burst the tape, not only winner of a historic race but possessor of a new world's record by the astonishing margin of nearly four minutes. The new record for the 26 mi., 385 yd.: 2 hr., 25 min...
...years), Harvard senior, aroused curiosity, interest, alarm, dismay, by roosting his exaggerated frame upon a stool in a lunch room and gulping down two, four, half a dozen, a dozen, two dozen, three dozen, three dozen and one, and five, and ten-four dozen soft-boiled (2½ min.) hen's eggs, in 45 minutes. At the 37th egg he choked, gasped out, "That egg was rotten." As the 48th mingled with its predecessors, he unfolded himself, arose, collected a bet ($10) and the price of his orgy, paid the pop-eyed waitress, stalked through the crowd and made...
...appeared to pull his chin down on his chest turtlewise. His shoulders sagged forward, his oar dragged. In a bit, he was rowing well again, but the race was over. Gliding along four lengths ahead, Cambridge spurted at the end, came within a minute of the record (18 min., 29 sec., established in 1911), shook hands all around as fresh as fresh...