Word: straightaways
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...middle of the picture it is killed.'5 From your description of the camera gun, the quoted statement may account for numerous alibis and limited bags. In wing shooting, the gun is never aimed directly at the object to be struck, except on the rare occasion of a straightaway bird, neither rising nor falling. For cross flight at 40 yards distance, it would be necessary to back that goose eight feet...
...Grieg, 282.11 m. p. h. The winning plane was a supermarine Rolls-Royce. Fast was Flyer Waghorn, but not fastest of the day. Atcherley was officially credited with 332.49 m. p. h. in another supermarine Rolls-Royce. Later all contestants made ready to surpass that record by straightaway dashes. Herewith, for comparison, are speeds for one mile made in other ways : Doer Means...
Most important of the contests was the race for the Harmsworth (British International) trophy, held since 1920 by wiry, grey-haired Garfield ("Gar") Wood, "The Silver Fox." Piloting his new Miss America VIII he won the first heat, established a non-straightaway record...
Like a blue cockchafer crawling onto a floating chip of wood, Naval Lieutenant Alfred J. William's Schneider Cup mono-seaplane Mercury floated on the Severn River off Annapolis last week, her nose in a barge. Lieutenant Williams, swiftest U. S. straightaway flyer since he won the 1923 Pulitzer speed trophy at St. Louis by flying 266.6 m. p. h., built the Mercury from his own specifications. The Navy could not afford the building costs. So friends supplied him the needed $175,000. The navy gave him factory facilities...
...Metropolitan audition was the result of a word whispered into official ears by Caruso himself. Without having learned an operatic role, with but six months to study grand opera methods, she was given a contract straightaway. She made her debut (1918) opposite Caruso, in the Verdi opera called La Forza del Destino-The Power of Fate...