Word: derwent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cruising range of about 1,200 miles, Avro's Jetliner was planned especially to meet Canadian conditions for fast, economical inter-city air service (it will not compete with the British De Havilland Comet for transocean traffic). An all-Canadian job except for its four Rolls-Royce Derwent V engines, it was designed to carry a load of 50 passengers plus crew of three, and to fly 430 m.p.h...
...financed by wealthy Blevins Davis, patron of the ballet and board member of the American National Theater and Academy. The 26-member troupe, with ANTA Executive Secretary Robert Breen playing Hamlet, was bolstered with some veteran Broadway talent: Aline MacMahon as the Queen, Walter Abel as the King, Clarence Derwent as Polonius. But the production, geared for ten outdoor performances in the castle's great courtyard, was born in Abingdon...
...Geography controversy began in February 1948 when the University terminated the temporary appointments of two faculty members in the division. Stripped to one permanent geography appointee, Professor Derwent S. Whittlesey, the Department of Geology and Geography was forced to abolish Geography as a field of concentration...
...Harvard action last March drew protests from the Student Council, the Graduate Council, and many faculty members, including Professors Kirtley F. Mather and Derwent S. Whittlesey...
Charter members include Professor Harry T. Levin, Howard M. Le Sourd, Dean of the School of Public Relations at Boston University, and Clarence Derwent, president of Actor Equity...