Word: craig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rapids, Walter Pitkin (Life Begins at Forty) will be talking on The Art of Relaxation, and in Brooklyn, Dr. Houston Peterson (The Melody of Chaos) will discuss Aldous Huxley. Martha Gellhorn talks that week in Chicago, Younghill Kang (The Grass Roof) in Wheeling, W. Va., and Captain John D. Craig (Adventure in Haiti) in Ann Arbor, Mich. In addition there will be a number of lectures belonging to the Great Question Mark school of public speaking, with David Seabury in Detroit asking What Makes Us Seem So Queer?; John T. Flynn in Elizabeth, N. J., What's the Matter...
...suit in which Max Nohl made last week's record dive was designed by himself, with the aid of Captain John Craig, a writer, lecturer and explorer who had invented a successful undersea camera. The suit is of rubber and weighs, with helmet, shoes and weights, 200 Ib. An underdress of heavy fleece wool and waterproof canvas is worn inside, the rubber canvas trousers, with pockets, outside. The helmet is cylindrical, has a glass window ⅜ in. thick all the way around, so that the diver has as wide an angle of vision as he can turn his head...
...attempt has been made to commercialize the suit or keep its details secret, and the Navy has been supplied with all essential information. One purpose to which Messrs. Nohl & Craig hope to put it is the salvaging of valuable articles from the Lusitania. Two years ago, the Orphir, a privately financed salvage ship, located a large hulk off tne Irish coast by means of an echo-sounder, and this was assumed to be the Lusitania when a diver found two-inch rivets, such as used in constructing the Lusitania. Bad weather and other difficulties drove the searchers off before there...
During the War, an infantry division consisted of about 22,000 men, divided into two infantry brigades of two infantry regiments each, one field artillery brigade usually of three regiments. It moved mainly on foot. Two years ago, U. S. Chief of Staff Malin Craig decided that engineering and mechanical progress had made the infantry division obsolete, asked his staff for a report on a new unit to embody all changes in power, transport and armament mechanization since the War. Result of his demand, the P. I. D. consists of 13,500 officers and men, contains three unbrigaded infantry regiments...
...think, is Mr. Laughlin's story, "The River." The backnoyed theme of the Middle-Western boys with the vision of "a better, richer life far, far away" from Springfield, Wisconsin, is handled with maturity of perception and of style. The single incident of the story, where Carson and Craig pick up two girls in Paris, is deftly made the turning point in the action. The sense of drifting is given reality both by an expert use of detail, and by long idiomatic sentences, winding into patterns of thought, half speech, marked by the use of participles and repeated phrases. Here...