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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...direction, the quickest way to turn around; and lastly, the side slip, where you turn the machine on its side till the wings are vertical and just plain fall without any supporting surface. It is the quickest way to lose altitude and you certainly do come down. You fall faster and faster till the wind roars through the wires and the machine shakes and vibrates till you think it is going to fly to pieces and till it throws the pilot hard against the belts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DESCRIBES FLYING IN FRANCE | 3/8/1918 | See Source »

During the first half the informals were slightly the faster, and succeeded in keeping the puck near the Wanderers' goal most of the time. The first score came at the end of seven minutes and 40 seconds, when N. S. Walker '20 caged the puck by a back-hand shot at the finish of a rush down the rink with the informal forwards. Less than a minute later Burkhart, the Wanderer's right wing, carried the puck beyond the informal forwards and by a long shot past the defence scored the only goal for his side and the last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INFORMALS IN 1-TO-1 TIE | 2/7/1918 | See Source »

Standish Hall won the Freshman dormitory hockey series yesterday afternoon by shutting out Smith in a double header, 3 to 0 and 1 to 0. In both games the Standish players showed much faster hockey than the losing team. A. Houghton and W. DeFord scored from scrimmage in the first game, while G. Henderson, goal guard of the Smith team, caged the puck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INFORMALS DEFEATED 3-1 | 1/25/1918 | See Source »

...does not mean "real security" for trade in place times. We had that, and in that security Germany forged ahead faster than any other nation. He means security for the German Navy to issue out of the English Channel in time of war and reduce the world to Germany's demands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tirpitz's "Freedom of the Seas." | 12/20/1917 | See Source »

...There are among others here, R. Anspach '18, H. Bridgman '19, J. Lambert '20, W. L. Avery '17, Sumner Sewall '20, and W. C. Hall '14. P. N. Rhinelander '18, (Little Phil), has just left with his French brevet to go to Perfection School where he learns to drive faster machines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DESCRIBES AID RAIDS ON LONDON | 12/15/1917 | See Source »

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