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Word: thea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hurried flyers to the air races and show at Cleveland this week. Most conspicuous was the Women's Air Derby from Santa Monica, Cal. After considerable squabbling (TIME, June 24), 19 women set out, including Marvel Crosson, Ruth Nichols, Ruth Elder, Amelia Earhart, Louise McPhetridge Thaden, Phoebe Omlie, Thea Rasche. The second day out Miss Crosson crashed fatally. Others had accidents, which they attributed to sabotage (not confirmed by investigators) or got lost. Thirteen ended the race, Ruth Nichols cracking up only 130 miles from the Cleveland airport. The Department of Commerce tried to evict Miss Rasche en route...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: On to Cleveland | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...Diamonds," whose trans-Atlantic conversation enlisted the aid of famed Passenger Charles A. Levine; who has been photographed in innumerable poses beside innumerable planes, whose flight to Rome has been a day-by-day concern of the tabloids, sailed quietly on the He de France. Big, buxom, German Thea Rasche, another trans-Atlantic threat, also looked up steamship sailings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comings & Goings: Jul. 9, 1928 | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

Young, pretty, impulsive, utterly reckless, Thea Rasche, Germany's crack lady stunt-flier, arrived here last week and repaired at once to Curtiss Field, there to inspect a Stinson Detroiter monoplane in which she plans to fly to Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights, Fliers: May 14, 1928 | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

Pilot Clarence Duncan Chamberlin and Passenger Charles A. Levine were last week enjoying the hospitality of Germans, resting in the watering place known as Baden-Baden, inspecting huge multi-motored airships at the Dornier and Zeppelin plants. Some of their doings: ¶Fraulein Thea Rasche, Germany's only licensed woman pilot, was taken for a ride over Berlin by Pilot Chamberlin. Skillful, she also took Passenger Levine for a ride. Correspondents heralded the trips as strengthening to U. S.-German relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Chamberlin & Levine | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Dec. 17, 1923 | 12/17/1923 | See Source »

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