Word: harmsworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hospital of New York's Medical Center. Said he: "I am hoping to find a prominent American lady who will be Chief Cheshire Cat for the Helpers of Wonderland League which we would like to start here to interest children the two projects. In England Mrs. Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, sister-in-law of Lord Rothermere and of the late Lord Northcliffe, is Chief Cheshire...
...issue of Sept. 12 of TIME, there is an article entitled "Harmsworth Cup." The Harmsworth trophy is not a cup but a plaque, on which there is depicted a race between two power boats...
...engineer responsible for the design and development of these engines was the late Major Lionel M. Woolson. Chief Engineer of the Department of Aeronautics of the Packard Motor Car Co. Major Woolson was rarely given the credit due him for the important part he played in retaining the Harmsworth trophy...
...statute miles-a new world's record, 5.16 m. p. h. faster than Kaye Don's time in Miss England III last spring on Loch Lomond. Climbing out of his boat, the old silver fox of U. S.-speed-boating, Gar Wood, defender of the Harmsworth Trophy, smiled contentedly. He had kept a promise to his country and himself...
Never in the history of motorboat races for the Harmsworth Cup (put up by the late Lord Northcliffe in 1903) has there been such hue & cry as there was last year about Garfield Arthur ("Gar") Wood's "Yankee trick." Wood in his Miss America IX crossed the starting line ahead of the gun for the second heat, thus prompting his rival, Kaye Don, who had won the first heat with Miss England II, to do likewise. Miss America IX and Miss England II were disqualified. A slower boat than either, driven by Gar Wood's brother George, circled...