Word: mishap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Patrol Plane Squadron VP6 climbed into twelve huge low-slung flying boats in San Diego Harbor, roared off without cere mony in trim formation toward Pearl Har bor, 2,553 mi. away. Next morning, 21 hr. 48 min. later, Patrol Squadron VP6 completed its routine task without mishap at Pearl Harbor...
...which two-thirds was raised by local churches, the rest by private donations, John D. Rockefeller Jr. being put down for a modest contribution. With details of transportation handled by Secretary Jesse Moren Bader of the Federal Council's Department of Evangelism, the tour went off without mishap. Traveling simply by train and plane, members of Preaching Mission "teams" kept themselves physically fit by eschewing whatever social functions they might have been invited to, spiritually consecrated by dropping to their knees at 8 a.m. breakfasts in prayer with local ministerial committees formed to collaborate with them wherever they went...
23rd. Got down to New Haven Saturday morning in three hours ten minutes. A weather eye for blue uniforms in dark Fords on the way but no mishap. Ten thousand men of Harvard cluttering the lobby of the Taft. Steering my love through the swirl and, just for fun, the open-air trolley out to the Bowl. Gulping excitement before the game that lasted till Yale's second score and then died into despair but came bounding back again with the second-half surge. My voice gone midway the third period, creaking come on, come on, come on, come...
Cecil Lewis' more conventional War experiences included a love affair with the mistress of a French officer, a number of accidents and one wound, a bad defeat in mimic warfare with the great French Pilot Guynemer, flights through the spectacular bombardment that opened the Somme offensive, a ludicrous mishap when his plane got away and raced around a field until it crashed. At 19 he was exhausted, weakened with eyestrain, his nerves ajangle, motivated only by a fatalistic conviction that, he would get through. The only time Lewis felt any anger against an enemy air man was during...
...smashed his landing gear, withdrew. With five planes left in the race, Capt. Stanley Halse, South African War ace took the lead. Apparently sure of victory, he ran into veldt fires, lost his way, cracked up with a dislocated arm on an ant-hill in Southern Rhodesia. A similar mishap overtook another entrant at Mpulungu near Lake Tanganyika, while a third was grounded at Khartoum with piston trouble, later crashed at Gwelo, Southern Rhodesia. This left two planes in the air, one a big, twin-motored Envoy flown by Pilot Max Findlay with three companions, the second a small single...