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...airport, Pilot Ogden Maxwell Goodsell did not see it. Circling aimlessly, Pilot Goodsell spied a golfer, dropped a milkbottle bearing a scribbled note asking him to lie on the turf with his head pointing toward the airport. Golfer Hunter Y. Lea obligingly lay down. Pilot Goodsell flew straightaway to a safe landing...
...Heathen, ridden by Frank Coltiletti who, because his mount was whip-shy, urged him down the straightaway and under the wire with wild yells and cowboy whoops; the $10,000 Harford Handicap at Havre De Grace...
...ancestry more seriously than ever before, and even the judgment of his jockey, the famed Tommy Cullinan of County Limerick, son of a sporting farmer, famed for his clever finishes and for leading with Billy Barton at the last fence in 1928. But Tommy Cullinan was moving up the straightaway with Shaun Goilin, and in the final sprint he passed Sir Lindsay, raced Melleray's Belle neck and neck in the last 100 yards, crossed the line a winner at 100 to 8. Melleray's Belle was second, Sir Lindsay third; far behind were Glangesia, Ballyhanwood. No others...
...middle of the picture it is killed.'5 From your description of the camera gun, the quoted statement may account for numerous alibis and limited bags. In wing shooting, the gun is never aimed directly at the object to be struck, except on the rare occasion of a straightaway bird, neither rising nor falling. For cross flight at 40 yards distance, it would be necessary to back that goose eight feet...
...Grieg, 282.11 m. p. h. The winning plane was a supermarine Rolls-Royce. Fast was Flyer Waghorn, but not fastest of the day. Atcherley was officially credited with 332.49 m. p. h. in another supermarine Rolls-Royce. Later all contestants made ready to surpass that record by straightaway dashes. Herewith, for comparison, are speeds for one mile made in other ways : Doer Means...