Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Where on earth do you think I am? To tell the honest truth, I'm not on earth at all. I am 5000 feet in the air! All alone! The engine is making such a noise that I can't hear myself think, but it is very smooth up here at 5000 feet, so I can run this 'bus with my left hand and write to you with my right! I am beginning to think that I am some aviator now, because I can go up and write letters...
...hate this bumpy strata of air I'm in now. Smooth again. I'm now at 6000 feet, still climbing. Tom is about 5000 feet, but passing directly under me. It's colder than all get-out up here now. So I'll have to put on my glove again and write with my left hand and drive with my right. This can't be done, so I'll stop writing for a minute...
University and Freshman crews had their first long workout of the season yesterday, rowing downstream for a considerable distance below the Cottage Farm Bridge. Coach Haines devoted his attention to the two upper crews of each squad, following the shells in the Pup I, which was launched yesterday. Though smooth rowing was rendered difficult by numerous cakes of floating ice, Coach Haines was satisfied with the workout, declaring that the University eight showed excellent form for only the third time on the water. Five of the lower boats, made up principally of green men, rowed from Weld under the direction...
Coach Gross put the upperclass seven through a light workout yesterday afternoon in preparation for the game. The Freshmen had previously had a separate session, so the two informal teams had a scrimmage. Both played clever hockey and were aided by smooth, hard ice. The individual stars were A. H. Bright '19, H. F. Gibbs '20, R. E. Gross '19, E. Van R. Stires '20 and N. S. Walker...
Thirty Freshmen reported at the Charlesbank rink yesterday afternoon for the first practice of the year under the direction of R. E. Gross '19. For convenience the squad was divided into two sections, and each section had a workout of about an hour. The ice was hard and fairly smooth...