Word: winds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ryan excused himself for making the release under these unusual circumstances by saying that he understood Syracuse newspaper had gotten wind of the communications between Mr. Whiteside and Harvard athletic officials and were planning to announce the appointment without verification...
Young Sinners reveals Raymond Guion as a young libertine who regains his wind and his principles in the Adirondacks. Playwright Elmer Harris has made a bid for the prurient trade with a sex lecture more graphic than graceful...
...Navy backfield use a short forward pass-Gannon to Kirn-to upset the odds, 13-6. Cornell's off-tackle smash had Penn in trouble, but not long. Gentle and Masters threw passes to each other like basketball forwards. Masters and Stevens punted 65 yards with the wind and 40 against it. Gentle fumbled the ball on his 2 yard line, picked it up again 2 yards back of his goal line and did not stop for 102 yards. Pennsylvania 17, Cornell...
...luck. Fire almost destroyed Keystone's 18-passenger Patrician. Rebuilt, it toured the country, then at Boston this summer it broke itself in a ditch. (It has again been rebuilt.) The Burnelli Skyliner for Paul Wadsworth Chapman (owner of the Leviathan) was washed out landing in a high wind. Anthony Hermann Gerard Fokker, designer extraordinary, was greeted with commiseration when he stepped off the Homeric, back from Europe, last week. His F-32, seating 32 persons, largest U. S. land plane, had just crashed a row of buildings near Roosevelt Field, L. I., shortly after taking off with fouled...
...above the ground. Department of Commerce regulations stipulate 1,000 ft. as minimum over congested areas. To quiet metropolitan hysteria two planes of the Gates Flying Service last week cut off their motors at 3,000 ft. over the centre of the island and glided, with moderate wind to help them, to safe, dead stick landings at New York's outskirts. An ordinary commercial plane has an average gliding ratio of 8 to 1. From a half mile height it can glide four miles in still...