Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wright Field has been experimenting with a pilot's seat that is shot out of the cockpit, pilot and all, by a 37-mm. shell. The difficulty is getting the seat out fast enough to clear the plane, but not so fast that the sudden acceleration will injure the human spine or break the hip bones. The prospects for this look fairly good. Wright Field workers have proved by experiments on themselves, says Baldwin, "that a man can take even the forces of 20 'Gs' [20 times the force of gravity] on his hip bones...
...Hungary" published a long account of the project, and paid tribute to lectures delivered by Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Bois Lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization, and professors Francis O. Matthiessen, Wassily W. Leontieff, and Benjamin F. Wright...
...Wright Lauds Committee...
Benjamin F. Wright, professor of Government and chairman of the Faculty Committee on General Education, last night lauded the Council committee, asserting that it conducted "one of the most carefully prepared investigations . . . I've ever heard...
Made in close cooperation with the professors teaching the G.E. courses, the detailed report had great influence in the reshaping of the G.E. program this year, Professor Wright said. It was officially approved by the Council Monday night...