Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Experiments in catapaulting the present type of machine, dependent for a start upon the swift passage of air over lift-creating planes, have increased the general interest in the possible development of the helicopter. In these experiments the machine is shot off a starting platform, much as a dart is thrown in the air. The start is so swift that the machine is able to pick up its flying speed and continue flight with its own engine...
...George H. Swift, $2800 Miss Marion Sprague, 1000 Mrs. Edgar Pierce, 1000 Eliot C. Lee '76, 1000 Edward Becker...
...front cover gives Lampy's trick number a very swift start. Instead of satirizing Mr. Harrison Fisher's illustrating as Bud-of-the-same-family-name might do, Mr. Gross has given a drawing that faithfully pretends to be the real thing. On the strength of its cover alone, Lampy could go on sale at all news-stands this week and hit the million circulation mark itself...
...MacFadden '21, G. R. Young Occ., F. S. Jewell 2 G. B., A. French '21, E. S. Hardell '21, F. S. Malott '22, R. A. Lyon '22, S. R. Lesher '21, K. Campbell '21, B. S. Cogan '23, J. G. Swift '22, V. G. Thomson uC., J. R. Bell '21, J. C. Sandison uC., F. K. Bullard '20, R. E. Stevens '23, H. H. Holliday Occ., S. Wadsworth '21, C. H. McVey...
Doubles at Divinity Field: At 2 o'clock, Lipman and Turenne vs. Harrison and Swift, Rand and Rand vs. Weeks and Weld, Clark and Curtis vs. Carver and Smyth...