Word: pursuitence
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obtained this photo from a British pilot (name forgotten) in November 1918 when stationed at the Toul airdrome as a flight commander of the U. S. Pursuit Squadron No. 141 (equipped with type XIII Spads) under command of Princeton's famed "Hobey" Baker...
Deputy Léon Blum, leader of the Socialist Party whose votes had been vital in keeping the Paul-Boncour Cabinet in power, attacked Papa Chéron thus: "In a crisis like this all estimates need to be modified from one minute to the next. . . . The pursuit of a rigorous balance is the pursuit of a mirage. . . . If the violence of the remedy aggravates the ill, what will become of your rigid balance? There is nothing to do but approach a balance, and certainly meanwhile one must borrow...
...Three Musketeers." overtook him last week at Wright Field. Dayton, Ohio. Week before at the same field it had flung to earth another crack Army pilot, Captain Hugh M. Elmendorf. Both men were performing their routine work of testing experimental planes. Captain Elmendorf crashed with his spinning pursuit ship. Lieut. null fighter snapped to bits in mid-air when something, possibly the propeller, broke...
...Lieut. Woodring, 31, had the more spectacular career. Shortly after beginning duty at Selfridge Field, Mich, in 1927 he landed a new-type pursuit plane which he was testing, got out, left the engine running. A brother officer took it up. Hardly had the ship gained altitude when it burst into flame. The officer died. A year later Lieut. Woodring flew with the First Pursuit Group on a goodwill tour of Canada. In a formation take-off his plane collided with another, killed its pilot. Shortly after he flew as one of the daring "Three Musketeers" of the Air Corps...
...these things?"-a definite implication of satisfactory medical attention-and the Bankhead return with a drugstorish package. Does it interest TIME and M.D. Myers to know that the Faithless situation was founded on late Paul Bern's own description of his contact-while on his usual relentless pursuit of deserving helplessness-with a "real life" case wherein a young M.D. wished he could purchase medicines for an ethical "free" case-except that he had-because of these times-already used his every available penny for similar deserving cases. Sometimes moviemakers use actualities because they are more interesting and dramatic...