Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Handsome new editions, most of them beautifully illustrated, have been published of such classics as ALICE IN WONDERLAND-Boni, Liveright ($3); PINOCCHIO-Macmillan ($5.00); A CONNECTICUT YANKEE AT KING ARTHUR'S COURT-Harper ($2.50); THE PILOT-Minton, Balch ($2.50); THE ARABIAN NIGHTS- Dodd, Mead ($5); THE DEERSLAYER -Scribner's ($2.50); WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG-Dutton...
...airplane flying from Paris to London were six ducks. While the plane sped at 100 miles an hour over the Straits of Dover, one duck laid an egg. Alighting at Croyden, the pilot had the egg boiled...
German newspapers asserted during the War that the British Government had set a price of ?5,000 (nearly $25,000) on his head. And when an English pilot finally shot him down, during a terrific battle between his squadron of 30 planes and 50 English machines, his death took news-precedence over even the Battle of the Somme...
Last week the Pere Marquette Railroad announced successful experiments with an automatic train control similar to the device announced by the Chicago & Northwestern a month ago ( TIME, Oct. 5). Electro-magnetic waves flow into the rails, are picked up by coils under the locomotive's pilot or cowcatcher," condensed, transmitted to signal devices in the engineer's cab. If the engineer is incapacitated or heedless, the current proceeds to operate controls, braking, throttling, halting the train. The incoming signals are despatched automatically by the block towers along the line and keep engineers informed of the condition of each...
Another garrison finish on the part of the Crimson gained them another tie score in 1920. It was one of the most sensational games ever played in the Stadium. Harvard matched down the held at the beginning of the game, Owen scoring, but Lourie, brilliant Tiger pilot, dashed 50 yards for the tying score a few minutes later. At the end of the third period, Keck. All-American tackle, broke through and blocked one of Owen's punts, Princeton recovering on Harvard's 5-yard line, whence Garrity scored...