Word: scapedeath
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...Scapedeath. At Camp Kearney, Calif, last week the plane of Lieut. Apollo Soucek, U. S. N., world's unofficial altitude champion (43,166 ft.), collided with another in midair. As Lieut. Soucek jumped, his parachute fouled the falling wreck. Frantically he jerked at the shrouds, pulled them clear barely 200 ft. above the ground, suffered only a sprained back...