Word: ingraham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week announced the names of 23 U. S. warboats new-built and building. Battleships: Iowa and New Jersey. Cruisers: Cleveland and Columbia. Seaplane tenders: Casco and Mackinac. Submarines: Marlin, Grayling, Grenadier, Gudgeon, Mackerel, Gar, Grampus, Grayback. Repair ship: Vulcan. Destroyers (for Navy heroes): Woolsey, Ludlow, Wilkes, Nicholson, Ericsson, Ingraham, Edison (for Thomas Alva, the Acting Secretary's father), Swanson (for his predecessor...
...ever hear of Colonel Prentiss Ingraham's colossal writing capacity? Ingraham would have six serial stories running at one time in different periodicals, and provide the copy as required; a detective story, romance story, wild west story, Indian tale, sea story, and Mexican stories of adventure-all good stuff...
...Colossal is the word for Prentiss Ingraham's (1843-1904) prolificity. His career supplied him with material aplenty. A soldier of fortune, he fought in the Civil War, under Juarez in Mexico, in the Austro-Prussian War, in Crete, in Africa, in Cuba. He wrote more than 600 novels, twelve plays-''without distinction [but] . . . written in a surprisingly correct and easy fashion and . . . wholesome in their general teachings." Napoleon's writings had a more disturbing effect...
...Marxists elected as secretary Edward H. Brown '41, as vice-president Rosenbaum 1G, and as president Goldman '39. The non-Marxist faction elected to its executive committee William I. Ingraham '38 and Warner Shippee...
...large extent worked on calculus to explain some phases of astronomy, but his findings now-more than 250 years later-are applied to calculating width of a brake lining to stop a motor car of a certain size at a certain speed at a given time."- Professor Mark Hoyt Ingraham, University of Wisconsin...