Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Transatlantic mail service offers a great opportunity for American enterprise. For this purpose we must make it possible to pick up burdens on the wing, in order that a plane could start on its trip across the Atlantic with a full load of baggage and comparatively light supply of fuel. Passing over its mother ships stationed along the route it could pick up supplies of fuel from the mastheads. This is not as impractical as it seems. In the fall of 1918 I succeeded in picking up a load of 150 pounds in a flight by means of an elastic...
...Burgess expressed himself as satisfied with the early season games. "The Andover and Springfield games gave me an idea of the material I had and showed me what the players could do in a real game. The games we played on our trip were by far the hardest and the team played finely at a great disadvantage...
...trip to Cornell the team had the difficulty of having to travel for two nights on Pullman sleepers and to play two hard games, but they fought hard in these contests, as in the preceding ones and managed to tie Cornell, 2-2, and put up a great game against Princeton...
...members of the club will have an opportunity to fly, provided the weather is suitable. A system of lots will be devised whereby all members will draw to determine who shall go up. Twenty members have so far signified their intentions of making the trip...
...announcement previously made that the two teams would meet on December 5 has had to be changed, due to the unexpected resignation of the Dartmouth coach. As now arranged, one team representing the University will make the trip to Hanover while one Green team will match wits with the Crimson debaters in Cambridge. The question as tentatively framed reads: "Resolved, That the U. S. should adopt the Plumb plan for the operation of the railroads, the constitutionality granted...