Word: plane
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...again come. We welcome Yale as our guests. With many of our best men leaving next week for Government service, today's contest affords the undergraduate the one big game of the season. At no time in the near future will intercollegiate athletics be on as high a plane as now. Where today our team already feels the loss of many, next week will see a considerable decrease in its strength,. Let everyone, therefore, take this opportunity of attending a game, which is not only a Yale-Harvard game, but which marks the high tide of war-time sport...
...bringing down a German plane recently, Lieutenant Douglas Campbell '17 has won the Croix de Guerre, as well as the congratulations of the French general commanding the zone in which the machine was downed. It is believed that he is the first graduate of a strictly American aviation school to bring down a German plane...
...just received your chocolates today. They have followed me all over England, and finally got here. There is a little box on the instrument board of this plane, and in it are six or seven chocolate gum-drops which I shall...
...came into the Army as the last five days. This is a magnificent school on a perfectly beautiful lake, and each time we go up we can look across the neck to the tall yellow sand-dunes on the shore of the gray Atlantic. The shooting from the plane is wonderful fun, and soon we are to shoot at targets towed behind other machines. The morale of the place is splendid, no roll-calls or formations or guards or drill, yet everything goes smoothly and everyone here is happy...
Professor Sabine, who returned last fall from a long visit to the front, explained in detail during the lecture the organization of the Allied air service. He spoke at length of the three types of machines, the scouting, the battle and the bombing planes, describing their construction and utility. He emphasized particularly the importance of the battle-plane in controlling artillery fire, and of the bombing plane in offensive work. In speaking of the latter, he expressed the hope that America would produce bombers who would have sufficient control and training in the use of bombing-sights to obtain better...