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Word: whitten (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Novice singles trial schedule: first heat--Brewer, Kubie, Queeny, Whitten; second heat--Barroll, Bisbee, Loring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Wherry Oarsmen Pass First Day's Trials | 8/12/1947 | See Source »

COMPROMISES -- 3:41.9: Lorentzen, Morse, Brewer, Whitten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smith Sets Pace In First Postwar Sculling Regatta | 8/30/1946 | See Source »

...Arthur Whitten Brown flew back to London from New York, the second transatlantic flight of his life. His first, from Newfoundland to Ireland in 1919 with Sir John Alcock, was the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic-eight years before Lindbergh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 8, 1946 | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

...Mississippi's Jamie Whitten that dodge was not enough to excuse plushy requests for appropriations. Said he: "We just had Admiral King in here, and Admiral King says: 'I have to pass it right back to Admiral Home'; now we have Admiral Home here and he says 'I have to depend on the bureau chiefs,' and then the bureau chief says 'I have to depend on the men under me,' and it goes right down to the fellow who is at the [Naval] Academy and wanted the stadium." Out went the stadium. Declared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: Congress Asks Questions | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

...some money? The Army was abandoning (partially or wholly) some 46 airfields or air facilities because Army Air Forces were undergoing a 20-30% training cut. Why couldn't the still-expanding Navy air arm use some of these facilities instead of building still others of its own? (Whitten: "We have just one country to foot the bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: Congress Asks Questions | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

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