Word: offs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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(6) Katherine Parr, widow, woman of great good sense and good will. Henry was 50, his face greasy and yellow in candlelight, his hands "broken out with rings." He was going to chop off her head, but she quietly talked him out of it.
The plan calls for a take-off from New York with a small load of gasoline, a first refueling over Boston, a capacity refueling (1,900-gallons) over Nova Scotia, the next near Glasgow, more in Germany, Poland, Russia, Siberia, Alaska, etc. etc. The route as planned is said to...
Lady's Endurance. Elinor Smith, 17, entered a Bellanca monoplane at Roosevelt Field, L. I., took off, arranged the controls as best she could (her stabilizer went out of order) and settled down to read Tom Sawyer while soaring and soaring 600 ft. above the airport. She stayed there...
Asia and Back. All alone, Parker Cramer took off last week from Nome, Alaska, flew out over ice-filled Bering Strait, dropped packages at Cape Wales and on Diomede Island, reached East Cape in Siberia, returned to Nome: 400 mi. roundtrip. Next flight: from Nome to New York (not non...
Rowing has heretofore always stopped a Tech in the middle of May, so that unless the oarsmen prevail on the authorities to allaw them to enter the Poughkeepsie regatta, it is doubtful if they would put off their studies to row Harvard on May 25.