Word: recordation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Force's F-86 jet fighter set a new world's record for level flight. Skimming the salt flats of California's Muroc Lake, Major Richard L. Johnson flew the North American plane with swept-back wings at an average of 670.981 m.p.h. in four passes, matching the record he had made unofficially in Cleveland two weeks earlier (TIME, Sept...
...Force proudly pointed out that the plane was neither specially souped up nor an experimental model like the Navy's previous record holder, the Douglas 0-558 Skystreak. Johnson's plane was an off-the-line production job, fully loaded and ready to fight. And, said Air Force Chief General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, it had not even been "full open...
Today's registration, coupled with that of 1,325 freshmen last Thursday, brings the approximate figure to 5,530--just 65 short of last year's record 5,595 and 400 more than was predicted for this term...
...matter of record that, in the six games between Columbia and Harvard, Columbia has never beaten, tied or even scored on the Crimson. Unfortunately, the last contest in this series was played...
Last year's Varsity record was typical of the mediocre showing Crimson harrier units have made in the past few years (although Coach Mikkola's Freshman-Varsity track and cross country score-card against Yale is 33 wins and 9 losses...