Word: moffett
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...first prize ($1,500) to Henri Matisse. This year it was Matisse's turn to award the prize. He gave it to Pablo Ruiz Picasso's calm masterly portrait of Mme Picasso. The other judges: Glyn Philpot of Britain; Karl Sterrer, Austria; Bernard Karfiol, Horatio Walker, Ross Moffett, U. S., made no objection. Most critics' lists of the ten greatest living painters contain both Picasso and Ma-tisse...
Helium. The explosion of the 5,500,000 cu. ft. of hydrogen inflating the R-101 caused practically all the devastation. Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett of the U. S. Navy last week pointed out that if non-inflammable helium (gas next lightest to hydrogen) had been used the R-101 would not have exploded. British commentators had already noted this obvious fact, with the implication that the U. S., monopolist of the world's helium supply, had selfishly prevented any of the gas from being exported. President Hoover deemed this insinuation worthy of White House denial. The Department...
...Salem, Mass., Kenneth Moffett, church organist, stepped among fallen trolley wires which burned off all his clothes without hurting...
Rear-Admiral William Adger Moffett, Chief of the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics, learned that his son. Lieutenant George Hall Moffett, U. S. N., had been made Assistant Athletic Coach at Annapolis...