Word: inventor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon after graduating from Amherst College, Gilbert fell in love with Elsie May Bell, daughter of Telephone Inventor Alexander Graham Bell, who was president of the National Geographic Society. When Bell offered Grosvenor a job on the Geographic, he took it (just to be near
Announcement of the new system was made last night by its inventor, Robert F. Bales, assistant professor of Sociology...
...oval wheels: they do not spin themselves into the mud, as round wheels do. They are "geared to the mud": the pointed ends dig into it while the flat sides, whose curvature is like that of a much larger round wheel, support the weight of the vehicle. Inventor Kopczynski says his experimental unit has about twice as much pulling power as if its wheels were round...
...least twelve traction-machinery companies have shown interest in walk wheels, and a U.S. Army engineer has recommended them for further testing. Last week Inventor Kopczynski left for England to discuss his wheels with British manufacturers...
There is very little that one can really say about Woolley's performance. He knows the part well-obviously, since he is the inventor of it, he plays it beautifully and with perfect shading--he ought to, for he had played it long enough. without him to play Sheridan Whiteside, it would have been complete lunacy for the HDC to attempt a production of this play. No matter how many productions of this perennial favorite you may have seen, when Woolley emits his first line, you know that the right man is in the wheelchair...