Word: wright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the course of the meeting N. N. B. A. held its annual election. No one was in doubt how it would turn out. Re-elected for the 14th time was its only president: 85-year-old Major (Spanish-American War paymaster) Richard R. Wright, president of the Citizens & Southern...
...That Inventor Ferguson will go down in history with Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and the Wright brothers...
...Dayton, Ohio, 67-year-old Orville Wright, who with his late brother Wilbur Wright flew the first airplane (at Kitty Hawk, N. C., 1903), took a 30-minute ride on the DC-4, biggest U. S. commercial landplane; his first flight in ten years. Said he: "It was a wonderful and delightful experience...
...recipienin are Te-k'un Cheng 1G, of Kulangan, Amoy, China; John IL, Cox 1G, of Naugatuck, Cohn.; James It, Hightower 2G, of Canton, China; Yueh-hwa Lin 2G, of Foochow, China; Bu-yu Teng 1G, of Hunan, China; and Arthur F. Wright 2G, of Portland...
...been running all morning was climaxed in the afternoon by the most spectacular contest of the day, as the trailing Crimson 150's put on a breath-taking superman spurt to pass the Yale lightweights for a full length within the last quarter mile. This gave them the Wright...