Word: wright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the week Lieutenant L. H. Sanderson, of the Marine Corps, flying the Navy-Wright Pulitzer racer, traveled at 238 miles an hour over Mitchel Field, L. I. Later Lieutenant H. J. Brow of the Navy went one better in the Navy-Curtiss racer, attaining the world's record speed of 244 miles an hour. Finally Lieutenant Alford J. Williams (Navy) went 255 miles per hour in another Navy-Curtiss...
...leading American expedition will be headed by Dr. John A. Miller, Vice President of Swathmore College and Director of its Sproul Observatory. It will be stationed at Yerbaniz, Mexico. Other members: Profs. E. W. Merriott and W. E. Wright, of Swathmore; Prof. Heber D. Curtis, Director of the Allegheny Observatory, University of Pittsburgh; Prof. Dinsmore Alter, University of Kansas. They will take a 65-foot focal length telescope camera, the largest ever used for this work...
Owen Wister, author: "A fortnight ago TIME arbitrarily stated that Mr. Harold Bell Wright is the only American author to have a hotel named after one of his fictional characters. Medicine Bow, Wyo., (where certain incidents of my best-known novel are said to have taken place), has named its most elaborate and commodious hotel The Viginian...
What will be the six or the ten best sellers for the coming year? Nobody knows and everyone seems to care. Only two seem almost certain of the widest popularity?The Mine with the Iron Door (Harold Bell Wright) and The White Flag (Eleanor H. Porter). Both authors sell by the carload rather than the volume; their publishers are always sittin' pretty financially. And then there is The Bover by Joseph Conrad, now running serially in the Pictorial Eeview, to be published probably this Winter?and Charles G. Norris, addicted to monosyllabic titles, will produce this month a little thing...
...resistance than a landing gear, a seaplane cannot travel as fast as a land plane. But 185.8 miles per hour is not a negligible speed. This is the world's seaplane record, made at Philadelphia last week by Lieutenant A. W. Gorton, in the U. S. Navy-Wright seaplane NW-2, entered for the Schneider Cup race to be held at Cowes, England, on Sept...