Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those early Mayan archaeological discoveries (Oct. 21) look Frank Lloyd Wright inspired. Of course, no offense intended to either architect...
...expected to fall throughout the day, the straight bread-and-butter plays which grind out yardage in small chunks will probably decide the outcome of the game. Penn's flashy sophomore halfbacks, Fred Doelling, John Hanlon, and John Terpak will probably give way to the fullback thrusts of John Wright and Dave Sikarski. Wright opened the season at halfback but was switched to the fullback spot when Terpak, Hanlon, and Doelling showed well in early games...
...conference in Europe with a preliminary meeting next year. For the week's discussion had demonstrated that capitalism has more to offer the world than cash. Its message: through technology, efficient management, research and the brand of valor that McGill University's Dr. David McCord Wright called the "energy to venture into uncertainty," competitive business can widen the distribution of goods, realize new sources of profit and do both in such fashion as to fortify free societies...
Though governments of underdeveloped countries are under constant pressure to achieve economic and social gains, they cannot realistically hope to match in a few years the living standards built up by Western nations over the centuries. In Mexico, for example, noted Dr. David McCord Wright, professor of economics and political science at Montreal's McGill University, the value of goods and services produced per capita in 1955 was $187, v. $2,343 in the U.S. Even to increase the per capita gross national product to the present U.S. level by 1980−when Mexico's population will have...
Equally as ridiculous as communist historical exaggerations were the claims made for Russia's fabulous inventors. These credited Popov with the discovery of the radio and made Marconi only a thief who profitted from the fruit of Popov's searches. Zhukovskij, the "father of flying," replaced the Wright brothers, Edison also bowed out before a Russian, and so on until every epochal inventive laurel was redistributed...