Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lany was the lapse of too much reading time between the whop, crash, and smash. Now (ahem) if you had written it thus: "Suddenly, just after the big transport had drummed some 25 ft. above the highway . . ., there was a rending crack! whop! smash! as the ship slammed full tilt into a pine power pole, as the motors ripped out and fell and the rest of the plane bashed into a palmetto thicket...
...Death at Daytona" in your Aug. 23 issue, for example: "Suddenly, just after the big transport had drummed some 25 ft. above the highway at the south end of the field, there were three rending crashes, whop! when the ship slammed full-tilt into a foot-thick pine power pole, crack! when the motors ripped out and thudded to earth, and smash! when the rest of the stricken plane bashed into a palmetto thicket...
Suddenly, just after the big transport had drummed some 25 ft. above the highway at the south end of the field, there were three rending crashes, whop! when the ship slammed full-tilt into a foot-thick pine power pole, crack! when the motors ripped out and thudded to earth, and smash! when the rest of the stricken plane bashed into a palmetto thicket. There was a spurt of flame from one motor, then silence...
...Pennsylvania pounded three Varsity twirlers for 10 baschits to win 11-4. On the following morning Slim Curtiss pitched the only Crimson victory of the series, over Columbia 6-4, but Coach Fred Mitchell's ace hurler, Ed Ingalls, bowed before the Princeton Tigers 7-2 in the afternoon tilt...
Tomorrow the netmen will take on M.I.T. and Princeton is carded for a Saturday tilt. Last year the Tigermen pinned an overwhelming defeat on the Crimson...