Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd...
...Admiral Byrd was shown to have drawn special compensations from the Government since 1916-once for a sprained ankle...
...headed youngster named Carl Byrd Fisher often took walks in the hills with Whittier's stranger. In a rural magazine called Grit the boy saw a picture of Col. Raymond Robins, wealthy Chicago Prohibitor who had been strangely missing since he left New York Sept. 3 to lunch with his good friend President Hoover at the White House (TIME, Sept. 19). Grit readers were advised to notify Salmon Oliver Levinson, famed Chicago attorney, if they saw a man resembling the photograph. Last week Carl Fisher wrote Mr. Levinson that he suspected "Reynolds Rogers" was "your man." Mr. Levinson turned...
...look to the horizontal aspect of their music as well as the vertical one, and the perfection of the art of diatonic composition have a unifying effect on the choral music performed after that time. Mr. Wooldridge devotes generous portions of his book to a discussion of Lassus, Byrd, and Palestrina...
...typical training procedure: at Newark Airport small Pilot "Bill" Lester of American Airways, who is 26 years old but looks 18, takes off in a Fairchild. Hidden in the blackened cockpit behind is old-timer Dean Smith, who flew for Byrd in the Antarctic. Pilot Lester disconnects the radio and instrument-panel light from the rear cockpit, zig-zags the ship every which way for a few miles, pulls it up into a stall, lets it fall off into a spin. At that instant he switches on the instruments, calls through the speaking tube: "All right, mister, take...