Word: richard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time since taking office visited the Washington Navy Yard. He was saluted with 21 guns, boarded the presidential barge, was ferried out into the Potomac near Haines Point, received another salute, boarded the revenue cutter Apache. Leaning over the rail he watched intently while Imp II, driven by Financier Richard Farnsworth Hoyt of Manhattan, won the President's cup for motorboats. The Pres- ident then accepted another salute, was ferried ashore and motored?reversing a decision of the week prior?the 100-odd miles away from Washington's heat and humidity to his Rapidan camp for one more weekend. Guests...
...hands of the military for one year was taken the Marine Corps cup when Civilian Richard W. Ballard outshot 1,385 competitors, scoring 99. Happy and proud was he, knowing that no other civilian had done this since...
...late Captain Charles B. D. Collyer-23 days, 15 hours, made by air- plane and steamship in 1928. Last week Mr. Mears declared that he would next year try to fly the earth in 16 days with an amphibian. The pilot he wants: burly Bernt Balchen, now with Explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd in Antarctica...
...Ithaca, N. Y., 253 men and 350 women scanned twelve photographs given them by Dr. Richard S. Uhrbrock, assistant professor of Rural Education, lecturer in Cornell University's course on Hotel Administration. The pictures were faces of twelve men who had taken the Thorndike intelligence test. Six had scored high, six had scored low. The 603 scanners carefully examined each face, guessed at cranial capacities, studied brightness of eye, firmness of mouth, tried to separate the stupid from the brilliant. Two photographs they observed in particular. From one smirked a dull, stupid face with drooping lips and averted, timid...
Four snorting speedboats, at the starter's gun, skittered and skimmed away over the Shrewsbury River at Red Bank, N. J., one day last week. One broke a rudder. One turned a flipflop. One's motor languished. Sole survivor was the Imp, owned and driven by Richard Farnsworth Hoyt (Hayden Stone & Co., director of 44 corporations, 20 aviation companies), which roared on lustily to win the gold cup, prime trophy of U. S. speedboating. Imp won all three heats, in the first attained a speed of 51.9 m.p.h., fastest gold cup time since restrictions on engine-power...