Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Putnam is at present the leading candidate for the pilot position. He prepared for college at Milton where he directed the team in his senior year. Coming to Harvard with an excellent reputation to uphold, he fully lived up to expectations by capably piloting his team throughout the season. In addition to filling the quarterback post, he was the high scorer of the team, counting in five games four touchdowns and one field goal. In his Sophomore year Putnam began the season in suspicious fashion. His wise selection of plays combined with a certain degree of daring were largely responsible...
...wife conferred as to what they should do. This time they had nine months at their disposal−obviously, the proper thing was a trip around the world. Obviously also, if you have been an ace, you understand that the majority of aeronautical accidents are the pilot's fault and that being up in the air, so long as no one is shooting at you from another plane, is as safe as being on the ground and much more pleasant. Accordingly, the de Sibours would go around the world in a $3,250 airplane which uses 4½ gallons...
...marine pilot, Capt. Howard, flying over Nicaragua involuntarily came to earth near La Luz mine on the east coast. His pontoon dug into the earth, ploughed a furrow. Corporal George Cole left to guard the plane, whiled away the time by panning out $100 worth of gold from a vein thus exposed...
...DOWN THE PILOT'S LADDER
...case. . . . But neither my temperament nor career can be satisfied with a situation that hereafter demands so little personal action. My energies and imagination must have fuller play. . . . And so I have tendered my resignation, turned the ship back to its captain. With this statement I climb down the pilot's ladder to an argosy of dreams. I am now the proprietor of a New York daily. . . . I only bespeak the patience of friends and public for time to 'Build My Rome...