Word: kiernan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lieutenants Joseph M. Kiernan and W. W. Hastings, students of naval architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, were the rotorists. Working with discarded materials, they had constructed a craft that differed from the original rotorship of Herr Anton Flettner of Germany (TIME, Nov. 17, Dec. 8, Mar. 2), in two respects: Where Flettner's R. S. Buckau had had two rotor cylinders, the lieutenants used but one, believing they thus avoided a detrimental interaction; where the base and top disc of the Flettner cylinder had revolved, in the U. S. design it was stationary. The motive principle...
Engaged. Miss Kitty Kiernan of Longford, Ireland, onetime fiancee of the late Michael Collins, to General Felix Cronin, Irish soldier. Three former fiances, all soldiers, have met violent deaths. The first, a member of the Royal Irish Constabulary, was shot in her father's inn; the second and the third (the famed Collins) were shot during the summer of 1922 by Irish Republicans...
Director.--Lieutenant Kiernan, U. S. Navy...