Word: mishap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lindberghs. The legend of Lindbergh infallibility has withstood minor shocks but never a shock like the one it endured last week. After crossing the Bering Sea without mishap and effecting a comparatively happy landing at Petropavlovsk, near the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Lindbergh troubles began. They continued for four days while headlines describing the oriental odyssey in occidental newspapers grew wide with astonishment...
...hours' sleep in preparation for the hazardous 2,100 mi. dash to Nome. They took off in the face of doubtful weather over the Gulf of Tartary. the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Bering Sea. This is the season of the 24-hour Arctic day. They reached Alaska without mishap, went on. The Winnie Mae stood in good chance of completing her course (via Edmonton and Cleveland) to Roosevelt Field on the tenth...
First problem of the maneuver was its concentration which took place without serious mishap, in spite of dirty flying weather. Some bombers from the West were held up, and at Boiling Field (Washington, D. C.) the pilots watched a grey sky, chafed at delay. Finally three planes started off. An hour later two of them were forced back by the weather. The other plane was the only one to get through to Dayton from Boiling Field that day. It was piloted by baldheaded, pipe-smoking Brigadier General Benjamin Delahauf ("Benny") Foulois,* 51-year-old Assistant Chief of Air Corps, senior...
...Mishap of Game...
...Harvard's victory. Captain E. T. Gerry '31, and H. I. Nicholas Jr. '31 tied for scoring the honors of the game with six goals each. The brothers Raymond and Leonard Firestone were outstanding for the Tigers the former registering five goals and his brother three. The only mishap of the game came when J. H. Bliss '31 was thrown from his horse, but he received no serious injury...