Word: solo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ground School will be selected for flight training this summer, and upon passing the Flight Physical Examinations, will be ordered to Squantum for 45 days active duty. Every student is enrolled as a seaman, second class, and while being taught to fly and receiving his 30 hours of "solo" time, is paid, on an average, $85 a month...
Last year 25 men were "checked out" and given 30 hours apiece of "solo" in Navy planes. The enrollment for ground school two years ago was only 25, but jumped to over 100 last year. This winter about 200 applications are expected. The growth of the success and pleasure of flying is a big drawing card and the popularity of the course is gaining by caps and bounds...
...program for tomorrow night includes the following numbers: "Our Director," by Bigelow; "Russian Folksongs--Volga Boatmen's Song," by Dubinushka; "Suite for String Orchestra," by Grieg; "March of the Little Lead Soliders," by Pierne; "Espana Valse," by Waldyenfel; "Triumphal March," by Grieg; Cello Solo by J. M. Barnes '29, and a Specialty Xylophone solo by Scott Burbank...
...clock in Symphony Hall, Boston. G. W. Woodworth 2G., who is conducting the Glee Club during the absence of Dr. A. T. Davison, who is taking his sabbatical leave of absence, will lead the club in tomorrow's concert. Mine, Sigrid Onegin, contralto, will sing the solo parts of Glee Club numbers...
From India through Java, Australia and Africa, Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of the U. S. National Museum, scouted out new fields for scientific research. Returning last month to Washington, he reported several new species of fossil big apes in Siwalik Hills (Burma); a new place to dig in the Solo Valley, stamping ground of Pithecanthropus erectus, the Java apeman; two new cave men's skeletons from the Broken Hill country in Rhodesia, South Africa, source of the famed Taungs skull...