Word: miller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year. Last year on Lake George, where, by the conditions of the race which gives the holder of the Cup the right to name the course, Driver Reis had the race run, she had a close call before she beat Delphine IV. Last month Driver Reis installed a new Miller motor. A few days before the race, a broken connecting rod turned this into a twisted pile of junk which could not be rebuilt in time for the start. Mr. Reis reinstalled his old motor, stopped tinkering and announced that his boat was ready to race, against Bill Horn...
...born in Leyden on the Rhine circa 1606, youngest son of a prosperous miller. His four elder brothers all became poor cobblers and millers. His parents soon assigned Rembrandt to something better, gave him a year at the University of Leyden before he brought home a pile of drawings, said he was determined to be a painter...
When 65 crop experts met in Chicago to form the Grain Analysts' Club, one of their number was a woman: comely, redhaired, blue-eyed Eileen Henington Miller. Selfconscious, Mrs. Miller offered to withdraw, but her male colleagues would not let her. One of the country's most brilliant crop forecasters, she has worked as a salesgirl in a department store and a stenographer in a Memphis cotton house where she began writing crop reports in 1919. As estimator for James E. Bennett & Co., Mrs. Miller does not rely solely on the reports of her 5,000 agents but travels personally...
...cause of mammalogy and ornithology, journey up the waters of the Paraguay River, cross over to one of the tributaries of the Amazon. Accordingly he dropped in for lunch at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, arranged to take with him Ornithologist George Cherrie, Mammalogist Leo Miller and Arctic Explorer Anthony Fiala. In Brazil he was joined by his son Kermit...
With War breaking in Europe, however, the "River of Doubt" was soon forgotten by everyone but cartographers. The Brazilian Government had confirmed the name "Rio Roosevelt," subsequently changed it to "Rio Téodoro." In 1919 Theodore Roosevelt died. In 1927 George Miller Dyott made a second trip down the river, found it as his predecessor had described. And in 1931 Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt journeyed from Albany to Manhattan to lay the cornerstone of the New York State Theodore Roosevelt Memorial, voted by the State Legislature at a cost of $3,700,000. Connected with the main building...