Word: dwight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eight years separated the births of Dwight Locke Wilbur's boys, Curtis Dwight and Ray Lyman?eight Iowa years during which the residents of little Boonesboro could foresee that Curtis Dwight Wilbur would grow to be a tall man with large hands, feet, ears and nose. Later, as younger Ray Lyman Wilbur grew up they could see that he, too, would be the "string bean" type. It also became apparent that, despite the years separating them, there was to be fraternal rivalry between the Wilbur boys for position in the world and prestige among...
When Curtis Dwight was graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy, Ray Lyman was still playing Indian in short pants. But Ray Lyman was not so young that he did not know Curtis Dwight had won the Academy championship, and a handsome tambourine, for high-kicking. Being a quiet boy, Ray Lyman did his high-kicking, if any, secretly...
...tambourine he resolved to win was high place in the medical profession. As a freshman at Stanford, he watched Curtis Dwight begin a law career in Los Angeles ? a career that was to take him to the Superior Court bench. Ray Lyman kept his head down, studied in Germany and England, returned, taught physiology at Stanford ? and became Stanford's presi dent...
That brought the brothers about even. Perhaps young Ray Lyman even had an edge. He certainly had an edge when Her bert Clark Hoover, his Stanford contem porary, called him to War-time Washington as an assistant. Superior Judge Curtis Dwight remained, augustly but withal provincially, in California, while young Ray Lyman mixed excitingly in national affairs...
...Hoover received another visitor and another Cabinet rumor was dispelled. This caller was U. S. Ambassador to Mexico Dwight Whitney Morrow. He had come to Belle Isle after a rest cure at Nassau. The short, chipper Ambassador, oft-mentioned as possible Hoover Secretary of State, talked for two hours with the President-Elect. Then he all but told newsmen that Mr. Hoover preferred to keep him in Mexico, where the sedative Morrow influence has been worthy and unprecedented...