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Word: wright (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wright, second line wing, opened the scoring at 4:18 in the first period when he netted a pass from Claflin after a scrimmage in front of the Framingham cage. Three minutes later, Cox scored on a pass from Burton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOCKEY TEAM WINS 13-0 IN ONE-SIDED BATTLE WITH M.I.T. | 12/8/1937 | See Source »

...converted into sleeping accommodation for 26 by night. Fanciest gadget is a lounge table the top of which, lined with mirrors, lifts to expose several wash basins. Aft and below are mail and cargo holds, quarters for the crew of ten. Its four motors mounted on the wings are Wright "Cyclones," 1,000 h.p. each, which give the plane a range of 4,500 miles carrying a payload of 7,500 Ib. and a maximum speed of 200 m.p.h. At its cruising speed, around 150 m.p.h., the 3,465-mile flight to London would take about 23 hours, leave enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Russian Sample | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...Flickinger, William D. McSweeney, Dwight D. Taylor, Jr., John P. Schwede, Peter G. Zouck, Ray C. Holt, Horace J. Bresler, Robert L. Wright, James I. Rothschild, Clifton E. Helman, Ralph Hornblower, Jr., W. Arthur Betz, William E. McDonald, Alan W. Petit, and Einor C. Palm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stahley Cuts '41 Basketball Aspirants to Squad of 25 | 11/30/1937 | See Source »

Harry E. White '40, Dorchester; Theodore H. White '38, Dorchester; Charles F. Whiting, Jr. '40, Cambridge; Richard L. Wing '40, New Bedford; Samuel D. Winisky '38, Dorchester; Herbert E. Wright, Jr. '39, Cambridge; Masso Yatsuhashi '40, Brookline; William P. Young '40, North Attleboro; and Norman Zamcheck '39, Lynn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $34,300 IN PRIZES GOES TO 131 MASS. UNDERGRADUATES | 11/23/1937 | See Source »

Only trouble with the comparison is that air conditioning has been in its infancy for the last 30 years. In 1903, the same year that the Wright brothers were getting their airplane off the ground for the first time, Willis Carrier put the first airconditioning system in the plant of a Manhattan lithographer who found that on hot days the humidity wrinkled his paper. By 1906 Willis Carrier had devised an air conditioning system for use in cotton mills, which up to then had such a problem keeping humidity in their spinning rooms that they operated with windows open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Carrier to Syracuse | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

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