Word: leas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late great Elmer Ambrose Sperry (TIME, June 23), younger brother of the late famed Pilot Lawrence Sperry who was drowned in the English Channel (TIME, Dec. 24, 1923). The eldest Sperry son, Edward Goodman, is not a pilot, nor is the Sperry daughter, Mrs. Robert B. Lea...
...director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, to compare their little black perfections in the Specialty Show of the Scottish Terrier Club, No. 1 event of the U. S. Scotty season. While the owners sipped tea and talked dog-shop, Dr. Little chose Watchman of Monagh Lea as No. 1 U. S. Scotty. This dog's value: $3,000. His prize: $15 and a silver cup. World's best Scotty is Heather Necessity, best-of-breed at London's last Crystal palace show...
...roof-mark pointing to the town's airport, Pilot Ogden Maxwell Goodsell did not see it. Circling aimlessly, Pilot Goodsell spied a golfer, dropped a milkbottle bearing a scribbled note asking him to lie on the turf with his head pointing toward the airport. Golfer Hunter Y. Lea obligingly lay down. Pilot Goodsell flew straightaway to a safe landing...
Medium tall, erect, precise, a wearer of hard suits, unfashionable collars and old-fashioned spectacles is Sir Percival Lea Dewhurst Perry, 52, who was the original agent (1909) for Ford cars in England...
...Haskins, Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History, to continue his studies in mediaeval culture, particularly mediaeval collections of letters...