Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other famous planes. None of us are building the plane that the public wants to buy, and that proves we are standing still." No mere disturber, no second-rate competitor disgruntled over his own failures uttered those words last week at Langley Field. Va. It was William Bushnell Stout, vice president (to President Edsel Bryant Ford) of Stout Metal Airplane Co., builders of Ford tri-motor all-metal transports. His listeners. 200 manufacturers and engineers and Government air service officials, were assembled to view the year's accomplishments of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. U. S.-supported research...
...mannered, confident, magnetic. He keeps 40 hives of bees, likes to smoke and drink beer with the Apostles at the Hotel Alte Post. He carves innumerable wooden Christs, and exhibits no false modesty about his exalted position in the Passion Play. No one is happier in Oberammergau than his stout, simple wife, who might easily be mistaken for his mother. Some villagers will tell you that the hair of Alois Lang owes its luxuriant curliness to a permanent wave...
...water of starfish by using a long mop, but other foes lurk beneath the surface. There are snailfish molluscs known as drills, borers, whelks and conches that congregate upon the oyster in such masses that they smother him. And the drum fish, sometimes several feet long, has such stout teeth that he can crush the oyster, shell and all. Attempts have been made to frighten him away by exploding dynamite, but against this weapon he is foolhardy, fearless...
Married. John Wellborn Root, famed Chicago architect; and Mrs. Aletta Stout Gellatly, of Chicago and East Orange, N. J.; in Manhattan. Mr. Root was divorced two months ago by Mrs. Ellen Dudley Root...
...Stout, novelist: "Art is man's attempt to conquer nature, either by improving upon her or by condemning...