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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into the air from Los Angeles. Their resolve was to shatter all existing records for endurance flights, to stay in the sky until men or engines succumbed. Experts had allowed their three Wright Whirlwind motors 400 flying hours before bearings splintered and cracked, poppet valves ceased to pop. The wind-bronzed flyers seemed staunch, infallible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Question Mark | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...pictures now on view at the University Theatre are distinctly above average, especially for these parts. "The Wind" with Lillian Gish as the little girl buffeted by the breezes is a rather good film of the melodramatic sort. Die Gish shows that even if Dorothy has abandoned her for the stage, she can still do a good job on the screen. Her portrayal in this picture of the windy West is as good as any she has done in quite some time...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/11/1929 | See Source »

...Angel vanished into the breath of a little spring wind, that dawn at Nazareth.-(St. Luke I, 26:38; and the famed painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 1932nd Anniversary | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...late dance at the Wood-stock Country Club will be the order of the evening in Indianapolis where the Crimson musicians will vie with the members of the Williams Cap and Bells in entertaining their respective followers. The following day, the Clubs will wind up their journey in Chicago, with a gala lunch at the H-Y-P Club, and a debutante party in the evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTRUMENTAL CLUBS LEAVE CHRISTMAS DAY | 12/20/1928 | See Source »

...wind is in the trombones and the saxophones they...

Author: By R. M. M., | Title: THE CRIME | 12/20/1928 | See Source »

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