Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Col. General Ernst Udet, 45, world war flying ace, quartermaster general of the German Air Force; while testing a new machine; in Berlin. Udet shot down 62 enemy planes in World War I. founded and failed in his own airplane factory, became a stunt flyer in the U. S. and Europe, rose to chief engineer and chief of supply of the Nazi Air Force...
Glib Harry Newman is best remembered in Kansas City for his Christmas Reindeer Pageant, staged in 1927 with 1,000 reindeer imported from Alaska as a promotion stunt for the Star...
...doing right well by herself. Kambers himself decided on the Harvard angle and approached Coles H. Phinizy '42, who had succeeded Bowie, with the proposition that the 'Poon invite the second Jean Harlow to its spring dance. She wouldn't come, Kambers promised, but she might do some stunt like sending a plaster cast of her leg as a substitute. Phinizy refused his offer until he became exasperated, and then, in a moment of weakness, which he has since regretted, he accepted. Kambers immediately sent off a wire, and Woodworth, far from sending a plaster cast stand-in, headed Cambridgeward...
...difference between these two poems is just one century. The first dates from 1841. Published last week was an anthology of poems, stories and art work by New York City school children, called Moments of Enchantment, a companion piece to a similar anthology published just 100 years ago. The stunt was staged by Associate School Superintendent Elias Lieberman, head of the junior high schools, who had happened on the 1841 collection, called The Pet Annual...
Several days went by. Officials considered using helicopters, blimps. The climbers had another try. failed. Said one official sourly: "We hate to jeopardize the lives of our men for a stunt that someone thought was smart...