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...history of the I. C. A. A. A. A. lends itself admirably to a comparison of times by eras. I have split the meet into three eras of sixteen years each. Sixteen years represents four complete college generations. In order to do this I have disregarded the performances of the first year, and have taken into consideration the 48 meets since then. The averages thus obtained speak for themselves, as follows: 1877-92 1893-1903 1909-26 m.s. m.s. m.s. 100 yards 10.36 10.12 9.97 220 yards 23.10 22.50 81.58 440 yards 52.60 50.23 48.75 880 yards...
...grimly by in the cockpit while Eielson felt his way between peaks at 9,000 feet. Once, a mountainside had rushed out of the fog so close in front that the plane's right landing wheel missed a snow bank by inches. At Barrow, clouds and a split propeller had frustrated three attempted return flights. Wilkins advised Major Lanphier, his second-in-command, to bide at Fairbanks for good weather before going to join him in their big biplane, the Detroiter. The Barrow base was nearly complete for flights over the Arctic Sea to terra incognita...
...Democratic party in the Senate has three wings: the urban, wet, conservative East, the dry, conservative South, and the Progressive, dry, agrarian West. The tariff and prohibition, two issues which still bear in them the seeds of vigorous dissension, of partisanship and high political fury, will either' of them split this loose confederation...
...Confusing to the minds of many was the $300,000 lease brokerage fee paid jointly to Benjamin L. Winchell of St. Louis and Samuel Pryor of Manhattan. Mr. Pryor put his $150,000 split into the Owenoke Corporation, of which he, Percy Rockefeller and Frederick B. Adams are equal partners, to complete (according to Percy Rockefeller's testimony) his capital share thereof. The implication was that Percy Rockefeller, who had recommended the leasing, had personally profited by $50,000, the partnership third of Mr. Pryor's brokerage fee. "But only in a sense," hearers of the admission were good enough...
...last week the Baby Gar VII slowed down to 40 miles an hour, with intent to turn around a buoy in the Havana open speedboat contest. Just ahead, the speedboat Miss Palm Beach was making the same turn. Splash went a wave slowing up Miss Palm Beach by a split second. Crash went Baby Gar VII into Miss Palm Beach, throwing overboard her own pilot, George Wood, brother of Gar. With her motors roaring, Baby Gar VII churned round in a circle, her rudder jammed hard over. George Wood caught a rope dragging from her, climbed aboard, cut the spark...