Word: willy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the finals of the 110-metre high hurdles, the track looked as though someone had driven an automobile through the jumps. Willi Welscher of Germany had knocked down four, enough to disqualify him. John Alton Keller of Ohio State had knocked down two and finished fourth, Donald Finlay of England who was given fourth place until an electro-photograph of the finish proved that he was third, was a step behind Percy Beard, Alabama Tech instructor whose scissor legs usually make up over the jumps what speed they lack on the flat. Even University of Iowa's lean George...
...groundling has wondered about the sensations of a parachute jumper, particularly in that awful, breathless moment when he drops from the plane, before the 'chute billows open. Those sensations have often been described in words, now they have been described in photographs. Three months ago two Germans, Willi Ruge and one Boettcher, made their first jumps from separate planes at Staaken Airdrome, Berlin, each armed with a small, specially designed automatic camera to photograph the other's descent and to take self-photographs during the jump. These pictures were printed six weeks ago in the Illustrated London News...
Again, Soucek. Lieut. Apollo Soucek, Navy Flyer, at Anacostia field last week flew his Wasp-motored Wright Apache landplane to 43,166 ft, world record, surpassing Germany's Willi Neuenhoffen's 41,794 record. Exactly one year before Lieut. Soucek made the world seaplane record...