Word: wright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Lanier Lawrance, president, Wright Aeronautical Corp...
...designed to give great lifting power. People thought the plane a little queer. Nevertheless, it won 13 efficiency prizes, aided by a little Anzani motor which Mr. Bellanca purchased from a junkman for $75. As everyone now knows, the famed Columbia is a Bellanca VIII equipped with a Wright Whirlwind motor...
...Shortly after the Wright brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk, N. C., in 1903, of which Student Bellanca had no knowledge...
Oberlin College, a Congregational co-educational institution in Oberlin, Ohio, last week invited a stranger to come within its gates. Incognito, he inspected the campus with Mrs. Katherine Wright Haskell,* one of Oberlin's trustees. Next day, having returned to Chicago and consulted his wife, he telegraphed his acceptance of the presidency of Oberlin. He is the first non-theologian to hold this office. His name and accomplishments: Dr. Ernest Hatch Wilkins, 46, professor of romance languages at the University of Chicago since 1916, War-time teacher of French to doughboys, author of Army French as well as Dante...
...Sister of the Wright brothers-Orville and the late Wilbur, famed aeronauts...