Word: plights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Army raced the Navy; Marine Corps raced Army; commercial planes of various specifications raced one another; private planes raced; stunt flyers gyrated; parachute jumpers floated. No astonishing speeds were made. Twenty thousand Spokaners cheered and shivered to see the ships go by. At the Lido, Venice, Plight Lieutenant Sidney Norman Webster, one of the British entrants for .the Schneider cup, broke all speed records with an average of 281.488 miles an hour. The best previous record, 246.496 miles an hour, was established last year by Major Mario de Bernardi, of the Italian air force, who wrested the cup from...
...Orcutt had completed the round with an evermore shocking score of 91, and was 2 down. When Miss Orcutt sliced her losing margin to a single hole on the afternoon 18, the gallery shook their heads sympathetically for Mrs. Horn. But Mrs. Horn refused to consider her plight seriously, and, cigarets and all, she took the women's national championship back with her to Kansas City, the first time it has been west since Edith Cummings...
...less than three different times, in three separate classes, to arouse respect for my wide knowledge of current events by plagiarizing incidents re lated in TIME, and each time the professor has smilingly and somewhat devastatingly retorted, "Yes, I read about that in TIME." So you see the plight a poor collegian is in when he tries to put your magazine to such practical uses...
...years, Mr. Foy is returning to the vaudeville stage for a farewell tour. The Fallen Star is the vehicle that takes him through the Keith-Albee theatres. This one-act sketch by Tom Barry tells of the plight of a once idolized actor who, in old age, is reduced to the position of doorman. Enthusiastic, Mr. Foy's friends urge him to revive Rip Van Winkle, one of the plays in which Joseph Jefferson toured the country...
...Harriman, vice president of the Child Welfare League of America, and Edward Fisher Brown, League executive secretary, both of whom visited the State Lodge. Mrs. Harriman said that in the Islands were 16,000 neglected children of white fathers and native mothers, that these children were in a lamentable plight...