Word: scouts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Various fast scout planes of high speed and unusual climbing ability have been said to approach a helicopter in their vertical climb but no one of these machines, no matter how powerful its engines, has been able to leave the ground at flying speed of less than 45 to 70 miles an hour. A large field is, of course, necessary for this type of plane, and in the aerial mail service for example an open expanse is often difficult to find...
...score-board dates back to 1900, when Arthur Irwin, former scout of the New York American Baseball Club, and now with Rochester, wishing to lessen the difficulty which the spectators had in following the play with a fair idea of who was making the plays, conceived the plan. At that time forward passes were unheard of and mass plays with flying wedges were relied on for results. This form of play made the game a confused one to follow. And it was almost impossible for the stands to tell who was doing the work. Furthermore, regular linesmen were not then...
...organization of our youth in patriotic service is one of the most distinguished developments of the period of uprousal through which we have passed. The proclamation of President Wilson, recommending the observation of a "Boy Scout Week" early next month, throughout the land, undoubtedly gives expression to the popular sentiment of approval...
...proclamation of the President of the United States, this week is to be observed as Boy Scout Week throughout the nation. It is desired to obtain one million new associate members of the Boy Scouts of America. There is no greater investment than in providing the means for developing the youth of the nation, upon whom the whole future of America so obviously depends...
...sensational get-away, when he dropped with his landing-gear practically all his chances of alighting safely on land, Americans were "rooting" for him, rather than the more cautiously scientific American pilots. Then he was lost for a week, and General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout Movement, was deeply affected last week as he told a New York audience that Americans seemed to feel that loss,--the loss of a thorough sport,--almost more than Englishmen themselves...