Word: past
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Syracuse at about 8:30 in the evening, Warren Stevens ran three times past rows of floodlights that gave the field a blueish tinge to make touchdowns against Hobart. Used successfully in the west for some time, the floodlights proved that many potential gloaters who like to play golf Saturday afternoons will go to night football games. Syracuse 77, Hobart...
...Eleven Vermonters found New York University rockier than any boundary of an upstate cow-pasture, a wall that thudded past them avalanche-like...
...solution is ingenious, will appeal to those who like a blend of mystery and mechanics. The technically expert setting shows the interior of one of Manhattan's Interborough Rapid Transit cars which whizzes past lights and stations. Co-Playwrights Eva Kay Flint and Martha Madison have contrived an exciting addition to the season's many slaughters...
...experimental flight. David Sinton Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of The Navy for Aeronautics: "Consider this achievement of inestimable value to aviation." Edward Pearson Warner, Editor of Aviation, Mr. Ingalls' predecessor in the Navy Department : ''An epic of aviation. Nothing approaching its importance has been accomplished within the past two years." Thurman Harrison Bane, chief of The Aviation Corp.'s technical staff: "Doolittle's flight marks the first stage in man's conquest of flying in fog, now aviation's greatest obstacle." Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones, president of Curtiss Flying Service: "The mechanical perfection...
...made by such branches of society as commerce and science, the law been slow in adapting itself to new conditions. The Sherman Anti-Trust laws, to use a familiar illustration, are already hopelessly antiquated to deal with modern business. By nature of its bulk and intimate connection with the past, the legal code is usually one of the last phases of society to adapt itself to changing environment...