Word: sylvanus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flight aspect but also with an eye to ease of maintenance. At Kansas City, hefty Prizeman Hamilton heads TWA's maintenance crew of 418 men. or 15 valets for each one of TWA's 27 Douglas transports. ¶ An older prize presented again last week was the Sylvanus Albert Reed Award of $250, given annually by the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences for the year's most notable contribution to aeronautical science. This year's winner: Professor Edward Story Taylor. 34, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His invention: a dynamic vibration absorber for aircraft engines...
...centimetre-gram-second system of units by the Inter national Electrotechnical Commission. First U. S. scientist to receive the Mascart Medal, venerable Dr. Kennelly hoped its bestowal would mark a closer liaison be tween U. S. and French scholarship. Frank Walker Caldwell, 46, Hamilton Standard Propeller Co. engineer; the Sylvanus Albert Reed Award of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences ($250 and certificate) : for his development of controllable pitch and constant speed propellers ("gear shift of the air"). Arthur Cutts Willard, 58, president of the University of Illinois; the F. Paul Anderson Gold Medal of the American Society of Heating...
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...first novel, Easter Sun, got a good hand from critics. By last week Author Neagoe was better known in the U. S. than most of his Rumanian compatriots. Earthy but not obscure, Peter Neagoe writes of barnyard happenings but not with the leer of the city-dweller. A Transylvanian Sylvanus, he tells with country gusto the chronicles of his sly, lustful, saintly and simple fellow-peasants...