Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down a runway at Wright Field, Dayton, one day last week roared the huge Boeing 299, largest landplane ever built in the U. S., on a routine test flight for a possible Army contract (TIME, July 15). Because the 70-ft., metalclad monster with its four machine-gun turrets, 6-ton bomb capacity and speed of 256 m.p.h. was regarded as the greatest battle plane ever designed, two young officers, Lieutenants Leonard F. Harman and Robert K. Giovannoli, looked up with interest as it fled past them down the field. Suddenly, when the four-motored plane was nearly...
Besides Playfair the Harvard team will be composed of Francis M. Rivinus, Jr. '38, Henry O. Marcy, III '37, William H. Wright, Jr. '88, Eugene H. Walker '37, Leonard C. Leen, '36, John M. Lovejoy '37, Alexander C. Northrop '38, Charles C. Worth '37, Cyrus C. DeCoster, Jr. '37, and John R. O'Neill...
...Fagnani. Of the 45 Speakers that the House has had, 39, in heavy ormolu frames, are there now. Of these only three are out of the ordinary: 1) the first Speaker of the House, bewigged, pompous Frederick Muhlenberg, copied by Samuel B. Waugh from an earlier portrait by Joseph Wright; 2) Champ Clark, best-known Speaker, by Boris Gordon; 3) Thomas B. Reed, which happened to be painted by John Singer Sargent. By custom, the family of the Speaker may suggest artists for the portrait but the Library Committee makes the final choice...
...Formal dinner will commence at seven o'clock, with dancing from nine until midnight. At the dinner both interhouse and interhouse guest slips may be signed by visitors from other Houses. Harold E. Jahn '36, Chairman of the Dance Committee, announced that the patronesses will include Mrs. Benjamin F. Wright, Jr., Mrs. Theodore Morison, and Mrs. Merle Fainsod. The ushers are: Harold E. Jahn '36, Albert Harkness, Jr. '38, Rutger B. Miller '36, Albert W. Hopson '37, John B. Barney '37, Edward L. Barnes '38, Lawrence N. Stevens '36, William Lawrence '37, Arthur W. Nelson '38, and Charles E. Tuttle...
Outstanding in improvement has been Bill Wright, Sophomore runner, but Henry, Marcy has been pressing him hard for this honer. Rough-diamend of the squad is Jack Lovejoy. Although a Junior, he started his running career this fall and immediately won imself a place on the team. So far, however, he has found trouble lengthening his stride the proper amount. Although Norman Leen, Gene Walker, John O'Neill, and cyrus DeCoster have been among the starting ten, they not yet hit their top ferm...