Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Angeles home. Roused from sleep, I rushed out, beseeched the firemen to save my limousine from its blazing garage. Said the newspapers: 'Mabel's pink pajamas hampered the rescue work, because the crowd that turned out got in the firemen's way to get a peek at Mabel...
...race. This race was held last week in the U. S. Seven large gas bags left San Antonio in the presence of 100,000 people. The pilots were Captain H. E. Honeywell, Kansas City Cooperative Club, making his 550th ascent; Herbert von Thaden, Detroit Aviation Society; Major Norman W. Peek, U. S. Air Service Balloon No. 1; Captain Edmund W. Hill and Lieutenant Ashley C. McKinley, two other Air Service pilots; W. T. Van Norman, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. The construction of a balloon is comparatively simple. It consists of a huge bag some 30 or more feet...
...Goodyear Co.). With his aide (C. K. Woolam) he landed near Rochester, Minn., over 1,100 miles from the starting point. The distance was within approximately 73 miles of the American distance record of 1,173 miles made by W. R. Hawley in 1910. Honeywell (Kansas City) was second, Peek (Army) third...
...announced at this time. The Joseph Eveleth scholarship goes to C. A. Bollinger 1S.A. of Meadville, Pa. Special student scholarships in Architecture were won by Thomas Francis McDonough S.A. of South Boston and G.T. Daub 1S.A. of Philadelphia, and Clifford Williams 1S.A. of Georgiaville, R. I. Gouverneur Medwin Peek 3S.A. of Oriando, Florida, a 1920 graduate of J. B. Stetson University, Gerald Warner Brace 2S.A. of New York City, holder of a 1921 A.B. from Amherst, and Otto John Teegan 3S.A. '21 of Davenport, Iowa, have received scholarships. The Edward Austin scholarship in architecture is given to Herbert James Powell...
...voltage ever before generated experimentally, and ten times greater than the highest voltage used in commercial transmission, was produced at a public demonstration in the Pittsfield (Mass.) laboratories of the General Electric Company, under the guidance of Giuseppe Faccioli, chief electrical engineer of the plant, and Frank W. Peek, Jr., consulting engineer, who invented much of the machinery involved...