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Word: wright (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...start at Old Orchard was June 13, a fair day with western winds all the way across the Atlantic. On the long, white, hard beach were the Yellow Bird and the Green Flash, a Bellanca monoplane with Wright Whirlwind motor which Roger Q. Williams and Lewis E. Yancey planned to fly to Rome. The Yellow Bird was going to Paris. The two planes warmed up simultaneously. The Yellow Bird took off first, her tail drooping unusually. The Green Flash in starting crumpled a wheel and wrecked itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flying Clubs | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...world air record made last week: Altitude for seaplane-Lieut. Apollo Soucek (U. S. N.), in a wasp-powered Wright Apache, 38,560 ft., at Washington; surpassing Lieut. C. C. Champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Jun. 17, 1929 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...dependable breakfast staple, detective stories are of no uniform quality. Every so often there is a good one. It is probably the lure of discovery that keeps the habitual reader going. One can always pick up the newest offering with trembling excitement. However, in the case of Reginald Wright Kauffman's most recent temptation there is no cause for excitement. "Beg Pardon, Sir!" is not an intrusion upon the low average of its contemporaries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Recent Novels | 6/4/1929 | See Source »

HARVARD BROWN Nugent, 2b. c.f., Moulton McGrath, s.s. r.f., McGinley Donaghy, 3b. l.f., Freedman Ticknor, c.f. s.s., Wright Whitney, l.f. 2b., McGinn Gilligan r.f. 1b., Crane Prior, 1b. 3b., Gurll Batchelder, c. c., Chaiklin MacHale, p. p., Sondheim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEAM MEETS BROWN TOMORROW | 5/29/1929 | See Source »

...mark), on General Electric (may split 4 for 1), Baltimore & Ohio (earnings may be $15 a share this year), and on many another stock. There was also definite bear counsel on Public Service of New Jersey (priced too high), American Power & Light (why buy stocks at their high?), Wright Aero (headed for lower levels soon) and others, including general disapproval of coppers and oils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Ten-cent Paper | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

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