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Curtiss

[ US /ˈkɝtɪs/ ]
NOUN
  1. United States industrialist and aviation pioneer (1878-1930)

How To Use Curtiss In A Sentence

  • HISTORY buffs still wax poetic about the brutal patent battles a century ago between the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss, another aviation pioneer.
  • Earhart excelled as a pilot. Her first instructor was Neta Snook, one of the first women to graduate from the Curtiss School of Aviation.
  • With a nod to Lucifer, Mr. Curtiss, still beaming, withdrew. ALL ABOUT LOVE
  • The accompanying profiles were mostly taken by a pentagraph from the wax figures now exhibiting through the country by Pendleton & Curtiss, which are striking and accurate likenesses of the Africans, taken from life by Mr. Moulthrop, and are mathematically correct. A history of the Amistad captives : being a circumstantial account of the capture of the Spanish schooner Amistad, by the Africans on board; their voyage, and capture near Long Island, New York : with biographical sketches of each of the surviving African
  • The campus community will observe 10 minutes of silence at noon, followed by a 12: 10 p.m. carillon concert by ISU carillonneur Tin-shi Tam and a program from the front steps of Curtiss Hall.
  • Freddy and his mates were flying the Curtiss P - 40E Warhawk which was well-armed with six .50-cal Browning machine guns and provided the pilot with ample protective armor.
  • Then he became a wingwalker and parachutist for a barnstorming pilot, not soloing until he bought a war-surplus Curtiss Jenny in 1923.
  • The other patent, by J P. Curtiss, was for an improvement in screwdrivers by securing the shank in a solid handle.
  • Minno studied the pollination biology of A. curtissii, but little is known of its autecology.
  • HISTORY buffs still wax poetic about the brutal patent battles a century ago between the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss, another aviation pioneer.
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