Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perennial gift to Sunday feature editors for the last five years has been the Armstrong Seadrome, vividly imaginative project for a chain of floating airports across the Atlantic. The perfect publicity subject, it offered serious readers masses of data on construction of huge platforms, stabilized high above the waves by means of weighted pillars, on problems of anchorage, navigation, operation, economics. For gumchewers there were exciting pictures of a seadrome at night, in midocean position, with flags flying, floodlights blazing, beacons stabbing the dark sky, gorgeous express planes gliding down to safe landings. Even the windows of the drome...
...most spectators the climax of the National Horse Show's Golden Jubilee in Manhattan began on the next-to-last night with the finals of the international individual jumping championship for military mounts. Eight jumpers out of 15 had astonishingly come out of the first round with perfect scores. Since some of them probably could do as well in the jump-off, it was stipulated that performance plus speed would decide the winner. That gave the U. S., the Irish Free State and Czechoslovakia, with two finalists each, a theoretical edge over Sweden and Canada which had only...
...Capt. Ernst Hallberg led off on Aida. a magnificent brown mare from the stables of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf. No faults. Then Lieut. Herbert Sachs on the grey gelding Orient. No faults. Finally Count Gustaf Fredrik von Rosen on brown Kornett. In a breathless minute he, too. made a perfect circuit. No team could beat the Swedes. The Canadians, Czechs and Irish disqualified themselves from chances of a tie, even proud Gallowglass refusing a jump. It was up to the U. S. Lieut. E. F. Thomson on Tanbark, and Major John Tupper Cole on Avocat made their jumps perfectly...
After being outplayed by Navy for three periods, Frank John. Princeton right guard, fell on a fumble for one touchdown. Homer Spoffard cut through tackle for another that kept Princeton's record perfect...
...bathroom, paid no bills). Two days later Singer McCormic heard that a hotel hostess named Grace null was in a Los Angeles newspaper office hawking details of the property settlement. Raging, she sped thither, slapped the informant soundly. Prince Serge defended Miss Williams: "She had a perfect right. . . . I have given her the keeping of all my private papers. She is writing my life story." Property settlement: Prince Serge exchanged $15,000 in notes for Singer McCormic's claim to a half interest in Pacific Shore Oil Co. (TIME. June...