Word: winds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...features: an expanding and contracting tail, like a blackbird's, for varying loads; variable camber in the wings, so that they could flatten out like a gull's when flying level; a varying angle of incidence to its wings, so that they could turn sideways into the wind on landing, and let him drop onto a landing field "no bigger than a handkerchief...
...championship Sophomore crew overwhelmed the Yale Junior Class crew at Derby Saturday by six lengths. Rowing in rough water with a following wind the Sophomore eight jumped into a lead at the start and steadily pulled away. The Crimson eight set this year's record for the mile and three quarters distance at Derby, turning in a time of nine minutes, 13 and two-fifths seconds...
...third Freshman shell evened things up by hauling across the finish line a length in the lead of the second M. I. T. Freshman boat, completing the course in six minutes and 12 seconds against a strong head wind...
...crew began to forge ahead rapidly. They overhauled the Juniors at the Henley distance and finished the full race a length and a quarter in the van. The time was ten minutes and seven seconds for the winners and five seconds more for the Lawrence boat. A heavy head wind slowed up both crews...
...Drake. A wind full of the smell of rain, a long, sawtooth Iowa wind, blew into the faces of runners at Des Homes, caught at the legs of jumpers, tossed thrown javelins like feathers, so that no world's record and only one local record were broken in the Drake relays...