Word: kent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...measure up to the very highest standards. However, by the testimony of many prominent educators, the prints in general meet well the purpose for which they were intended and some, at least, are of really fine quality. If any further evidence of this is needed, such artists as Rockwell Kent, Jon Corbino and Thomas Benton have expressed themselves as pleased with the reproductions of their own paintings. Mr. Benton, in fact, used our copies of his pictures for his own Christmas presents...
Launched last year the two ships were tested separately on the water and in the air. For weeks, coupled together like giant dragon flies, they taxied over the Medway, off Rochester, Kent, finally flew locked together above Short Bros, big plant. One afternoon last week they took off again, Ace Test Pilots John Parker and Harold Piper at the controls of Maia and Mercury, respectively. At 700 ft., flying 140 m.p.h. with conditions perfect, Chief Pilot Parker telephoned up to Pilot Piper: "Is everything all right?" Then: "One, two, three, go." Thousands of Sunday strollers cheered as the two seaplanes...
John H. Pierpont '39 was elected president of the Instrumental Clubs for the coming year at a meeting last night in Dunster House. Chosen vice-president was James M. E. Mixter '40, while Hollister Kent '39 was named secretary-treasurer...
Newly-elected secretary treasurer Kent then appointed D. Gordon Halstead '40 assistant secretary. Another appointment was that of Howard M. Turner Jr. '40 to the post of assistant manager...
...original paintings might be together forever, he and Nephew Philip, the artist's business aid, negotiated an agreement with Connecticut's State Park & Forest Commission in 1934: Brasher would give his paintings; the State would within two years build a wheel-shaped gallery for them in Kent Falls State Park. Month ago, the museum not having been built according to the agreement, Philip Brasher drove to Hartford, declared the paintings forfeit to the artist. Few days later he & wife trundled them down to Washington, where this week, in the National Geographic's large bright 16th Street Building...