Word: lutz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alfred Lee Loomis, Manhattan banker and physicist, and Frank E. Lutz, curator of insects at the American Museum of Natural History, played scientific tricks with a cricket. They played the black bug in a vacuum and in a container of compressed air; for ten minutes they whirled him in a machine 1,200 times a minute. The insect did not die because air pockets j in his hard coat apparently protected him. Beside these insect researches, Mr. Loomis, vice president of Bonbright & Co., experiments in his private laboratory at Tuxedo Park, N. Y., on the effect of "super-sounds...
Last week, Adjutant General Lutz Wahl of the Army reminded the 40,000 incorrect applicants, and the 500,000 non-applicants, that no bonus will be paid to any one-or his relict or dependents-who fails to apply before Jan. 1, 1928. The reminder was intended also for many a onetime sailor, many a onetime marine...
...University eight spent yesterday afternoon experimenting with a new Lutz shell on the Charles, the various eights shifting about and each taking an initial row in the new craft. After practice the general consensus of opinion was that it was not quite up to the standard of the shell used in the race at New London last June, a shell constructed by Pocock...
Accordingly, the new Lutz boat has been shipped to Ithaca in addition to the first and second University Pocock, the red cedar shell recently presented to the University as a present by R. F. Herrick '90, and made by Pocock, the famous boat builder who has supplied shells for the victorious Washington State eights for a number of years past. If Lake Cayuga is smooth tomorrow at the time of the Cornell race, the University may row the new Lutz boat, but if the water is at all rough the crew will row the shell it is used...
...University second crew has also tried the Lutz shell but rejected it in favor of the 1925 Pocock it has rowed in its two winning races...