Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...catch up and go past him. Five miles further on, Zabala was first again. At 15 miles another runner caught him. This time it was Lauri Virtanen, Finland's substitute for Nurmi. Virtanen tired as soon as he had the lead, quit the race. At 22 miles, Duncan MacLeod Wright, seasoned Scottish marathoner, passed Zabala and held the lead for two miles...
...stadium, where the Olympic torch flared enormously against a dark sky, heard a trumpet blast as the first runner came into the chute for the finish. They recognized Zabala, tired but still running strongly. A hundred yards behind him was Samuel Ferris of England. Armas Toivonen of Finland and Wright were in the stadium also by the time Zabala, a small solemn figure jogging steadily through an uproar of cheers and trumpets, reached the finish. It was the closest marathon in Olympic history and the fastest?...
...Equipoise, the favorite, who missed winning his eighth race in a row by a short neck in a great finish; at Chicago. ¶Winthrop Rutherfurd Jr., No. 5 of the 1927 Princeton crew; the quarter-mile dash for single sculls at the Royal Canadian Henley Regatta, beating famed Joe Wright, of Toronto, at St. Catherines, Ont. Two days later Rutherfurd won the senior singles and, with his brother John, the senior doubles...
...inventors of powered lighter-than-air craft; of arteriosclerosis; in Bello Horizonte, Minas Geraes, Brazil. In 1901 he piloted one of his airships around the Eiffel Tower. He was not successful with airplanes until more than three years after the first successful flights of the Wright Brothers...
...Joseph Wright Harriman, founder-president of Manhattan's Harriman National Bank & Trust Co., nephew of the late Railroader Edward Henry Harriman, retired to the board chairmanship in favor of Henry Elliott Cooper, formerly one of Chase National Bank's 74 vice presidents and a onetime member of John Davison Rockefeller's personal staff. Harriman National was founded as Night & Day Bank (open continuously), changed its name in 1911, still remains open for business from...