Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh is one of the judges of the race, which will be held under the auspices of the National Aeronautical Association. Three prizes of $500, $300, and $200 will be awarded the winning clubs by Grover Loneing, manufacturer and designer of airplanes, together with individual and club trophies...
...competition will be an altitude contest, which is preferred to a speed race since it is safer and is won by the skill of the pilot rather than by the power of the engine. Each club enters three pilots, who are listed to compete in separate tests...
...University 150-pound crews, with their seating arrangements definitely decided by Coach C. S. Heard '25 since the vacation practice period on the Houstonic river, have started stiff training this week for the opening race with...
...from an endurance stunt to the dignity Boston institutions to escape the obloquy of the enlightened. And if, eight seconds in this instance seems as short as the twenty six miles seem long, they gain added significance in the fact that this year's race was the criterion of choice for the Olympics. The race, indeed, is so influenced by this, by what it reenacts, and by the nationalities that run in it, that it is peculiarly suited to the Athens of America...
With the picking of the first two boats on the University crew squad at the beginning of this week the Harvard oarsmen have started their serious drive for the later season races. Although these two crews are by no means permanent these eights will give Coach E. J. Brown '96 two crews on which to concentrate his attention in preparing for the first race of the season with...