Word: orman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still sailing northwards were: Ward T. Van Orman & Frank A. Trotter (U. S.); Lieut.-Commander Thomas G. W. Settle (last year's winner) & Charles H. Kendall (U. S.) who wirelessed that they were approaching Lake Huron; Philippe Quersin & Martial van Schelle (Belgium); Captain Franciszek Hynek & Lieut. Zbigniew Burzynski (Poland). A steamer sighted an unrecognized balloon over the Straits of Mackinac...
...night the first five appointees to the new Society of Fellows. The initial group of men will form the nucleus of the "Junior Fellows" and assume their fellowships next fall. Those designated by the Corporation: Garrett Birkhoff '32 of Cambridge, John Chester Miller '30 of Tacoma, Washington, Willard Van Orman Quine, Oberlin '30, of Akron, Ohio, Burrhus Frederic Skinner, Hamilton '26, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Frederick Mundell Watkins '30, of Providence, Rhode Island. The three men from Harvard were graduated summa cum laude...
...listen appreciatively to what the young men had to say. The juniors were Lieut.-Commander Thomas G. V. Settle, U. S. N., winner of the James Gordon Bennett Trophy in this year's International Balloon Races in Switzerland (TIME, Oct. 10); and Ward Tunte Van Orman who finished second. They had just returned from Europe via Graf Zeppelin and South America...
...somewhat rambling speech. He was Mr. Hawley's co-pilot on the 1910 flight in which they made an unofficial distance record which has never been surpassed-1,172 mi. Other oldtimers. proud of their kinship in the venerable clan of ballooning, came to congratulate Settle and Van Orman. (Their respective copilots were Lieut. Wilfred Bushnell, a portly, moon-faced Navy officer; and Roland J. Blair who, like Pilot Van Orman, works for Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp.) There was white-shocked Capt. Horace B. Wild, 61, who 40 years ago exhibited two 'chute-jumping goats and later (1905) became...
Around the new Gordon Bennett winners these patriarchs formed an admiring circle, prompting them with technical questions about the race, clucking over the answers with nostalgic appreciation, marvelling open-mouthed at Van Orman's description of his instruments that sound a buzzer and flash a red light when the altitude of his balloon begins to fluctuate. Lieut.-Commander Settle, a mathematically-minded engineer who inspects the construction of Navy dirigibles, described their homeward voyage on the Graf in precise, unimaginative terms. But Van Orman's gaunt face brightened, his eyes shone as he exclaimed: "Never have...