Word: mishaps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is the second year of the Flying Club's activity. Founded as the first college organization of its kind, the club achieved fame during its first year because of the great number of miles completed without mishap of any kind...
...Curtis Travelair 0xx6, a more powerful machine than the one formerly in the possession of the Club. It was purchased at Wichita, Kansas, and flown to Boston by A. N. Pabst 3L. and M. N. Fairbank '28 in a successful five-day trip, in which the only mishap was a forced landing at Troy, N. Y., caused by a small leak in the fuel tank...
...older generation, Rose being our heroine. She discovers her love for Hero Francis Sales only after he has married another girl. When Mrs. Sales becomes an invalid after a hunting accident, Rose does not let the fact that she was per-haps a little to blame for the mishap interfere with a pure but clandestine love affair with Francis. Henrietta, Rose's pert niece, also likes Francis, but finds after experimenting with him that she likes Charles Batty better. So, when Sales' wife dies, Rose marries him and Henrietta goes Batty...
...evenly manned boats. Coach Brown did not say, but it is thought that Norton and Perkins will stroke the two crews during most of the week and that Watts will replace one of them when the squad is again given a definite ranking it is probable also that, barring mishap, Captain Platt's place in the first eight is assured throughout the rest of the season He is getting into shape rapidly and seems none the worse for his illness...
...Pabst 2L, and Crocker Snow 1L. Over 75 passengers have been carried, the plane has been in the air over 30 hours, and approximately eight hours of instruction has been given to specially qualified members of the club. A rigid daily inspection system has prevented all accidents, the only mishap of any sort so far being a flat tire...