Word: wade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Congratulations for your splendid news magazine. You have revolutionized news-writing. Before TIME appeared, I had quit reading daily papers and news magazines, except at long intervals and then cursorily, because they were so voluminous and dull. I had to wade through many pages that did not interest me to glean some few items that...
...exploration of the Polar Sea by air, (TIME, June 22 et sec.) Their work had been of a kind which, if the prophets are right, will be rated by future generations-if not with the exploits of Columbus and Magellan- certainly with those of Hinton (Atlantic-crossing aeronaut), Leigh, Wade and Nelson (globe-fliers) and Eckener (Atlantic crossing dirigible pilot...
...Leigh Wade, "world flier" M.Sc...
Tufts College (Medford, Mass.) honored itself and Lieutenant Leigh Wade, U. S. Army, with a master's degree in Science for his circummundane airplane flight last year; honored Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay with a Litt.D...
From the outset only three aeronauts had a chance: Ernest de Muyter, who won the race in 1920, '22, '23, '24, Belgium, Wade T. Van Orman, U. S., Lawrence Bienaime, France. A full day after the race had begun, although only six of the 18 gasbags were in the air, this order was unchanged...