Word: plane
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reappearance of Hasty Pudding Spring Show posters in the Yard, after a lapse of three years, is one more indication that conditions at Cambridge are slowly swinging back to the normal plane of before the war days. It has been long since the curtain of the Pudding stage has creaked up on a much rouged and closely shaved chorus of pseudo-girls, and since basso-voiced heroines and sotto-voiced prompters have held an undergraduate audience thrilled by the unrehearsed actions of a Pudding cast. "Crowns and Clowns" will be a welcome visitor to the University...
...Leading a protection patrol, Captain Coolidge went to the assistance of two observation planes which were being attacked by six German machines. Observing this manoeuvre, the enemy sent up a terrific barrage from anti-aircraft guns on the ground. Disregarding the extreme danger, Captain Coolidge dived straight into the barrage and his plane was struck and sent down in flames...
Lieutenant Stephen Tullock Hopkins '14, a pilot in the 96th Aero Squadron, A. E. F., was killed in action at St. Mihiel early in September. From the best information available his plane was shot down on September 12, and both he and his observer, Lieutenant Bertram Williams '18, whose death has already been reported, were killed. They are buried at Charey, France...
...January Number of the Advocate is uncommonly interesting. It is plain that after the destruction and the distraction of war the old College is emerging--not settling back--to its own plane once more, and that what Stevenson has called "an unwavering creative purpose" is again asserting itself. Not that the strokes of the artist are always sure, or his lines and modelling free from false touches or even ugly angles. This is illustrated in the imagistic verses, of which there are two rather ambitious contributions, "The Beggar" and "Lights and Snows"; also in the stories "Yestdo" and "The Glory...
...addition, General Pershing reports that Lieutenant Douglas Campbell '17, captain of the University gymnastic team last year, shot down last Sunday an enemy biplane containing two officers, making his second enemy plane destroyed...