Word: short
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under a late April sun, three green athletic fields belted by black cinder tracks marked off with whitewashed lines?one field on the Atlantic seaboard, one in the Midwest, one near the Pacific?teemed one afternoon last week with running, jumping, lunging figures in short white pants and varicolored track shirts. At the Penn relays in Philadelphia, the Drake relays in Des Moines, the West Coast relays in Fresno, U. S. athletes had, thrice equalled one world's record, and broken...
...Knowing that life leaves its stigmata on the body, he carefully detailed his health history in his will. He reported that, as a child, he had varioloid measles, sore throat and "colds." When he was twelve he had struck his head upon a stone and gone unconscious for a short time. Then he walked home. Apparently there were no after results. But for years his scalp had felt tender. In adult life he had had typhoid, acute rheumatism, labyrinthine deafness, pneumonia five times, influenza, chronic laryngitis, chronic ulcer of nasal septum...
...other driving a shaft connected to a pusher propeller at the rear end. The tail of the plane is held out behind this rear propeller by two outriggers from the wings. Out of the Bellanca secrecy has issued this rumor: The plane is being built for Shirley J. Short, oldtime air mail pilot, 1926 Harmon Trophyist. Backed by the Chicago Daily News, he will try for a standing prize of $25,000 for the first non-stop flight from Seattle to Tokyo...
...Head winds had eaten up its gasoline on the last half of the journey. Had the plane carried a radio, it could have been notified of a 30 m.p.h. tailwind which was blowing on a lower level. Distance: 4,130 mi.; time: 50 hrs., 38 min. (about 300 mi. short of the non-stop Rome-to-Brazil record flight; 15 hrs. short of the German endurance record...
...Moulton, after acting a short time as a consul from United States in France, retired and settled down in that country at Ille et Vilaine, where he has lived ever since...