Word: osborne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scientific and the ecclesiastic, including Lecturer-Biologist Albert Edward Wiggam and able, liberal Editor Guy Emery Shipler of The Churchman (presiding officer of the day), heard with interest this unusual scheme by which science and ecclesiasticism were to be conjoined for the improvement of the race. Treasurer Frederick Osborn of the Association promised that investigations would be made to determine the feasibility of the plan and, among other things, whether scientists and professors, as well as clergymen, deserve a bonus...
...currents made by the plane in flight. The pilot can work the ailerons by hand as well, to effect lateral control of the plane, likewise the wing flaps. The plane has been designed to be put into immediate production with few changes in manufacturing methods now employed. Robert R. Osborn, project designer, speaking for the entire group of Curtiss engineers who jointly developed the Tanager in the Curtiss wind tunnel after two years' research, last week claimed that the floating aileron gives control at any angle of flight, adds non-stalling characteristics to the plane's performance, does...
Manhattan's Henry Fairfield Osborn gave his crushed fedora hat and fur-lined overcoat (it has fancy buttons) to the cloakroom attendant and strolled to the speakers' platform, where he presided as retiring president. (California Tech's Robert Andrews Millikan is the incoming president.) His speech tended to show that man and monkeys are descended from so remote an ancestor that they should not be considered related...