Word: rim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From six points on the rim of the U. S., also from Canada, hurried flyers to the air races and show at Cleveland this week. Most conspicuous was the Women's Air Derby from Santa Monica, Cal. After considerable squabbling (TIME, June 24), 19 women set out, including Marvel Crosson, Ruth Nichols, Ruth Elder, Amelia Earhart, Louise McPhetridge Thaden, Phoebe Omlie, Thea Rasche. The second day out Miss Crosson crashed fatally. Others had accidents, which they attributed to sabotage (not confirmed by investigators) or got lost. Thirteen ended the race, Ruth Nichols cracking up only 130 miles from...
...glow. The sun ''rises" abruptly, deep black shadows retreating sharply before it. In the Arnott film, shown last week by Princeton Professor John Stewart, the silver edge of a lunar morning creeps up the steep walls of the volcano, two miles high. Long shadows of the craggy rim are cast across the crater floor within, slowly shortening until...
...notable. Weight and power are usually necessary to make a fight exciting. Yet Eastern ring-watchers felt they had had a good evening last week after observing the earnest efforts of two little untitled men to knock each other out in ten rounds of fighting which looked, from the rim of the Bronx coliseum in which it took place, like a black ant and a dark-haired mosquito battering at each other...
Like twelve fat vegetables in a soup plate, twelve great balloons nestled in Pitt Stadium at Pittsburgh. The evening light was fading as the first bag, piloted by W. A. Klikoff and Pete Lawson representing Aircraft Development Corp., slowly rose into the air and, once above the rim of the stadium, swam rapidly away in a brisk westerly wind. One after another the rest of the bags rose and floated away...
...unfound meteorite which ripped into northeastern Arizona an unknown number of years ago and formed Meteor Crater (also called Coon Butte) about two miles east of Canyon Diablo. That meteorite ploughed a circular hole 4,000 ft. in diameter. 600 ft. deep, and threw up a rim 150 ft. above the surrounding plain. For years miners have been trying to locate its buried mass, for the sake of its iron and nickel...