Word: wright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...July they dubbed it Airacuda-air for its medium; acuda, from barracuda, that giant warm-ocean pike-like fish noted as a tireless, reckless, vicious killer. To Airacuda Bell Aircraft proudly added a mixed-metaphoric subtitle "Tiger of the Skies." Last week, Army pilots who were testing it at Wright Field, Dayton, found it indeed a "tiger...
...Disappointment of the show was much-publicized Lady Wright of Durley, one of the most famed horsewomen of Europe, who shipped to the U. S. a string of four horses trained by lady trainers, and handled by lady grooms. Lady Wright had fair cause to look down-in-the-mouth after winning only one fourth-place white ribbon in five days of competition...
Also a graduate of Milton Academy, Winslow W. Wright, whose home is in Milton, placed second, while William J. Underwood of Belmont, who attended Belmont Hill, was retained as the second assistant...
Newshawks found Joseph Wright Harriman, 70, onetime head of the Harriman National Bank & Trust Co. (TIME. March 27, 1933) who went to jail after his bank collapsed, is now paroled, working for a Long Island Ford and Lincoln dealer. Remuneration: $25 a week and commissions. Said local dealers: "He's a corking good salesman...
Next Harvard man in was Pen Tuttle '40, in eighth place. Roswell Brayton '39 was tenth, William Wright '38 in fifteenth place was the next Crimson man in. And the remaining six men finished in order starting with nineteenth place; Alex Northrop '38; George P. Gardner, Jr. '39; Frank L. Porter '40; Edward S. Childs '40; Francis M. Rivinus...