Word: runway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miller '27 flashed down the board runway to win the 40 yard dash even with no difficulty. The Crimson speed king covered the distance in 4 4-5 seconds. T. E. Dunn '29, with a handicap of three feet, was second, while Thomas Mason '30, star on the first year relay quartet, crossed the line in third place...
...dolly' collapsed. ..." To spectators it seemed that the "dolly" twice bumped heavily, failed to leave the ground. Captain Fonck said afterwards: "I intended to stop the plane but I was afraid it would tear into the crowd of automobiles. . . ." The crippled monster reached a gully at the runway's end, turned a cartwheel, right wing down, and vanished from sight...
Wilkins. One morning the big monoplane Alaskan was trundled out of her shed at Fairbanks, Alaska, and placed on an inclined runway. Since her smash into a wire fence three weeks ago, repairs had been swiftly made on her propeller, fuselage and landing gear. Tuned to a new perfection, loaded with 3,000 lb. of freight* and 290 gallons of extra gasoline, she responded with a twelve-cylinder roar to Pilot Carl B. Eielson's cry for "Contact!" Ice on the runway had melted, leaving about a foot of slush which the Alaskan churned high...
Hoff. Charles Hoff, with a vaulting pole in his hand, paced down a runway in Madison Square Garden. Already he had cleared the bar at 11 ft., 11 ft. 6 in., 12 ft., 12 ft. 6 in., and it had been announced that he would try for a super-world's record of 13 ft. 6 in. He took one stride, two strides on the runway, then came a splintering crash, he lurched sideways, went sprawling into the landing pit. A board had broken under his foot. He arose, limped to a bench. A masseur got to work...
...sophomore in Yale University. Competing at Yale in intramural track and field games, he took a long pole in his hand and measured off his distance from a white crossbar. For a moment he stood quite still, as if absorbed in reverie; then his feet twinkled on the runway, the end of his pole prodded the ground. His tense body shot up and up, at first vertical, then changing in the air, with the leisured slowness of immense physical effort, to a horizontal position/SUP...