Word: helmsman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...close to the Cape Ann rocks, it skirmished into the lead to win. The losers, unwilling to give up another day's fishing, conceded to Capt. Manuel Domingos of the Progress the $2,150 prize money, the Prentiss Trophy, one leg on the Davis Trophy. The stalwart, suntanned helmsman of the Progress: Prof. George Owen of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, saltwater friend of the Secretary of the Navy, father of Harvard's famed all-round athlete (George Owen...
...Dornier, usually self-contained and impassive, stood nervously on the lake shore, watch in hand. He gave a signal. The crew of 16 took their posts, the twelve motors thundered. The enormous flying boat slid out with ponderous ease across the glassy water after taxiing about for practice, the helmsman circled back for another signal, opened the throttles wide. After a run of 30 seconds, the gigantic ship lifted clear of the lake and flew. Dr. Dornier bursting with excitement and relief, said: "It is going to be a wonderful flying machine." He is looking for a buyer...
Died. Walter Scherz, trans-Atlantic helmsman of the dirigibles Los Angeles (1924) and Graf Zeppelin (1928); of balloon gas poisoning; in Friederichshafen, Germany...
...Walter Thompson." Brisk and businesslike was the young advertising agent who followed it, some 55 years ago, into the sanctum of Harper's Monthly. Aghast and horrified were the editors who heard his proposal. Flank their belles lettres with a tradesperson's solicitation? As well charge Helmsman Ulysses S. Grant with bottomry. The public would recoil in equal alarm. Young Thompson insisted that back-page advertisements were dignified, profitable. He prevailed...
Pforzheimer is a graduate of the Horace Mann School of New York City and since entering the University has been regular helmsman for the 1928 Freshman crew and a leading contestant for the position in the University boat for two years...