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  Hawks and the Eaglet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Hawks made several practice glider flights directly before the competition and with this preparation, he won a silver cup for the championship with a duration of one and 1/3 minutes, and a spot landing located "thirteen paces" from the landing mark.
Hawks was convinced that gliders were an inexpensive introduction to aviation for the youth of America and that Texaco Oil might benefit from the publicity of this new sport.
with Duke Jemigin and Wallace Franklin in the Waco and Hawks in the Eaglet.
www.torreypinesgulls.org /Hawks.htm   (1889 words)

  
 Frank Hawks
Frank Hawks had recently become interested in gliding when he saw a Franklin glider, "9491," perform at the Detroit Glider Carnival in 1929.
The Gamma 2A was purchased by Texaco on December 6, 1932 and was put at the disposal of Frank Hawks for record-breaking and advertising purposes.
Hawks was killed in 1938 flying a Gwinn Aircar that many aviation experts considered a far safer aircraft than those that he normally flew.
www.acepilots.com /wwi/pio_hawks.html   (1378 words)

  
 Frank
Frank and John were also tricksters; stories of their many practical jokes are still fondly told at family gatherings.
Frank and John went their separate ways in the early 1950s, when John accepted a permanent position with the University of Montana and Frank decided to work outside of Academia.
Perhaps Frank's greatest contribution to the grizzly bear study, and to the science of wildlife ecology, was his leadership in developing and using radio transmitters.
www.grizzlybear.org /frank.htm   (2360 words)

  
 Rares #5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Frank was born and raised in the New York area.
Frank uses cat litter pans as pigeon bath pans and dumps 3 or 4 tablespoons of either bleach or cider vinegar in the bath water.
Frank says one of his problems is he has chosen breeds of birds that are white and tend to attract hawks.
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 Leo Frank Lynching | Leo Frank Atlanta trial and lynching in Marietta, GA
The story of Leo Frank and Mary Phagan, on one level the story of a murder, trial, and execution, can be seen on another level as a frightening example of the conflicts that developed out of the merging of the agrarian and urban cultures.
Frank's body was rushed to an undertaker in Atlanta, with a line of vehicles trailing behind.
The Frank case can be seen as an illustration of what happens when the world is changing too fast for some people who, since they cannot alter their circumstances, vent their frustration and anger on people or things that symbolize the change they cannot control.
www.atlantanation.com /leofrank.html   (1415 words)

  
 Howard Hawks --[ EDITING ROOM ] SCENE 360
Hawks is also credited with launching the career of Lauren Becall among others, although their relationship was one of unrequited love (Hawks was hurt when she fell in love with Humphrey Bogart).
Hawks wanted tell a good story in the most entertaining way possible, and that he did, which might explain how his career was able to survive the change from silent films to talkies when many others were not so fortunate.
Hawks was forced to tone down the film's violence and reshoot some scenes showing Italian Americans in a better light before the film was allowed to be released, costing it the honor of being the first great gangster film of the talkie generation (that honor was jointly usurped by Little Caesar and Public Enemy).
www.scene360.com /EDITINGroom_Hawks.html   (1128 words)

  
 Franklin PS-2
Hawks was the superintendent of the Texas Company's aviation division, and he purchased the new aircraft using company funds.
Hawks christened it the "Eaglet" but the airplane was renamed the "Texaco Eaglet" after the transcontinental flight.
Frank Hawks continued to set point-to-point speed records and race aircraft such as the Travel Air Mystery Ship and the Northrop Gamma (see NASM collection).
www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/aircraft/franklin_ps2.htm   (1956 words)

  
 Central Jersey Hawks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Hawks hope he will be scoring a lot of runs for the middle of the lineup.
Last week, Frank was thrown out of a game for arguing and "emmitting bodily fluids" as described by the commisioner of baseball.
My time with the CJ Hawks has been tremendous and it was wonderful to see a group of strangers come together and make a run at the title in only the 2nd season.
www.cjhawks.com /PlayerTransactions.html   (1248 words)

  
 Central Jersey Hawks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Should the Hawks not win the championship?  Well then they exceeded everyones expectations by a long shot, except maybe their own.  And should they win the fall classic?  Well this reporter won't be a bit suprised...
ABA commisioner Larry Frank has handed down a partial decision in the scuffle at home plate on September 21st between Hawks Frank Morelli and the Reds catcher.
Craig Magnani, the Hawks opening day starter, due to his impressive pitching during the Hawks spring season, was only able to pitch 1 inning due to arm problems he was having.
www.cjhawks.com /HawksNews.html   (938 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood
Frank Hawks, on the other hand, was tall and handsome in a distinguished way, and certainly one of the most eligible bachelors in Goshen at that time.
With Frank halfheartedly working at the mill and obliged to look after his mother, Helen agreed to stay there, and almost immediately discovered that she was pregnant.
Frank didn't have to work, so they spent the winter of 1906-07 in Pasadena, California, a town northeast of Los Angeles that had recently caught on as a popular destination for well-to-do families from the East and Midwest.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/howardhawks.htm   (6150 words)

  
 LHHS Hawks
The Hawks ended the season the #1 ranked wrestling team in Orange County and was voted the Orange County Wrestling Team of the Year by the Orange County Wrestling Coaches Association.
The Hawks' Blake Fitzgerald just started wrestling in his senior year, and he was pinned by Aliso senior Meelad Kharazian in their dual meet a week earlier.
Hawks' senior Anton Shvarts, the 130-pound winner and lower weight MVP of the recent Laguna Hills Invitational, pinned Aliso Niguel's Allen Aguilera in 1:40 of his first match.
hawkwrestling.com /0304/framer.html   (4208 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Nets win 11th in a row; Frank sets NBA record   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Frank set the NBA record for the best start to a coaching career by winning his 10th straight game and Jason Kidd posted his 58th career triple-double to lead the New Jersey Nets to a 98-92 win over the Atlanta Hawks Wednesdqy night.
Frank had shared the record for best coaching start with Kurt Rambis of the 1998-99 Los Angeles Lakers and Buddy Jeannette of the 1947-48 Baltimore Bullets.
Frank and the Nets seemed to be in a little trouble late in the third quarter when Jackson hit two 3-pointers and scored eight straight points to give the Hawks a 68-63 lead.
www.usatoday.com /sports/basketball/games/2004-02-18-nets-hawks_x.htm   (774 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Nets - Hawks trash Nets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
His Nets were humiliated by the lottery-bound Atlanta Hawks, 129-107, at Philips Arena last night even with Jason Kidd and Kenyon Martin surprisingly in the starting lineup.
Also, Frank and the Nets had to watch Bobby Sura collect his third consecutive triple-double in bogus fashion as Sura purposely missed an uncontested layup at the end of the game to grab his 10th rebound.
Frank and the Nets will have to wait until tomorrow night, the final day of the season, to see whom they will face in the first round.
www.nydailynews.com /sports/basketball/nets/story/183214p-158994c.html   (475 words)

  
 Milwaukee Hawks (1951-1955)
Stats researched by Frank Fleming, all information, and team names are property of the National Basketball Association.
Playing in the larger Milwaukee Arena better known as The Mecca the Hawks played lackluster basket ball, posting a horrid league worse 17-49 record, with Mel Hutchins, who tied for 2nd in rebounding with 13.3 boards per game the team's lone highlight.
However it would not be enough to lift the Hawks out of last place as they posted a record of 26-46.
www.sportsecyclopedia.com /nba/milhawks/milhawks.html   (344 words)

  
 The Return of Frank James | Movie (1940)
This season, with vengeance rankling in his breast, Jesse 's older brother, Frank, returns to even the score.
Frank 's no cinematic match for Jesse, which appears to be Will Hays ' fault more than anyone else's.
Which leaves Hellman in the paradoxical position of having Frank 's responsible for deaths of three men who never so much as tasted a single slug from his six shooter.
www.leninimports.com /the_return_of_frank_james.html   (231 words)

  
 Hockey East Online Game Recaps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Frank Doyle made 22 saves to post the shutout for Maine.
The Black Bears got on the board first at 8:37 in the first period as freshman Brent Shepheard (Shawnigan Lake, B.C.) scored an unassisted goal, which was the first of his collegiate career.
In goal, Maine's Frank Doyle (Guelph, Ontario) recorded his second shutout of the season as he had 22 saves on the night and improves to 5-1-0 on the season.
www.hockeyeastonline.com /boxes/0304/111603/me-uml.html   (943 words)

  
 Serial No 21   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Constructor number B17L-52 was delivered on December 23, 1934, purchased by famed racing pilot Frank Hawks.
This aircraft was Hawks’ first Beechcraft, but not the first time he bought an airplane from Walter Beech.
The B17L was purchased by John Collins in 1949, and was donated by the Collins family in 1992.
www.staggerwing.co.uk /serial_no_21.htm   (224 words)

  
 Northrop Gamma Ellsworth Polar Star Antarctic Explorer
The other of these first two Gammas was built for Frank Hawks, who at the time was a pilot for Texaco.
The beginning was February, 1932, when Frank Hawks decided his TravelAir Mystery Texaco 13 wasn't fast enough and asked the manufacturers to come up with something better.
Frank Hawks showed how fast his big silver bird could do its job by flying from Los Angeles to New York (no simple trick in those days) at an average speed of 180 mph for the 2450 miles.
www.fiddlersgreen.net /AC/aircraft/Northrop-Gamma/info/info.htm   (2151 words)

  
 Howard Hawks: A Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries
The limitations of Howard Hawks which prevent him from being major artist and the concurrent limitations of the auteur theory.
On the implications of Howard Hawks' decision to alter the sex of the main character in his adaptation "His girl Friday".
An analysis of Howard Hawks' "Only angels have wings", arguing (through analogy with Ernest Hemingway) that he foregrounds his method of constructing narrative and in doing so foregrounds his own artistic consciousness.
www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/hawksbib.html   (2378 words)

  
 CNN.com - Defending Kerry, senator blasts 'chicken hawks' - Apr 28, 2004
Frank Lautenberg on Wednesday points to a picture of President Bush declaring an end to major combat in Iraq last year.
Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey blasted Vice President Dick Cheney as "the lead chicken hawk" against Sen. John Kerry and criticized other Republicans for questioning the Democratic presidential contender's military credentials.
And the lead chicken hawk against Senator Kerry is the vice president of the United States -- Vice President Cheney.
www.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/28/Senate.military   (1190 words)

  
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Frank among the rancheros / by Harry Castlemon.
Frank on the lower Mississippi / by Harry Castlemon [pseud.] Philadelphia : Henry T. Coates & Co., [1868] Castlemon, Harry, 1842-1915.
Frank on the prairie / by Harry Castlemon.
libnt4.lib.tcu.edu /SpColl/web-exhi/BOYSBKS2.txt   (18321 words)

  
 Blockbuster - Auckland Basketball - Latest News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Hawke’s Bay, the team with the fewest turnovers during the regular season, uncharacteristically coughed up the ball on three straight possessions during the first quarter, with Dillon Boucher stealing the third one and converting it into two points at the other end of the court.
Hawks forward Adrian Majstrovich, limited to just two points in the first half, found his shooting touch after the halftime break and buried a three-pointer to put the Hawks back on top.
The Hawks grabbed the rebound and Winitana’s prayer from near mid-court went in, but it was clearly after the final buzzer.
www.aucklandstars.co.nz /latestnews.asp   (1209 words)

  
 Daily Record Sports - Unblemished Frank grabs record   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
With the Nets’ surprisingly difficult 98-92 victory over the Atlanta Hawks, the diminutive interim coach set an NBA mark by winning his 10th straight game to start his coaching career.
Frank tried to motivate with another of his increasingly famous pre-game speeches, this one involving how a trainer controls a tiger with a stool.
But the Nets really didn’t pull it out until the end against a confusing Hawks team that was playing their first game with four new players.
www.dailyrecord.com /sports/pro/sports1-021904nets.htm   (705 words)

  
 TSN.ca - Print Story - Canada's Sports Leader   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Frank set the NBA record for the best start to a coaching career by winning his 10th straight game and Jason Kidd posted his 58th career triple-double to lead the New Jersey Nets over the Atlanta Hawks 98-92 on Wednesday night.
``We're happy we got the win,'' said the 33-year-old Frank, who wasn't good enough to make his high school team, in large part because he was too small at five-foot-seven.
Frank and the Nets seemed to be in a little trouble late in the third quarter when Jackson hit two three-pointers and scored eight straight points to give the Hawks a 68-63 lead.
www.tsn.ca /tools/print_story.asp?id=72715   (609 words)

  
 Lakeland Softball   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Hawks had a runner at third with one out, but the Lumberjacks got out of it.
She allowed five hits and the Hawks committed six errors, four in the third when St. Maries scored four unearned runs.
It was the second straight year as the top seed the Hawks had to bounce back from an upset loss in the semis to nab a berth at state.
www.sd272.k12.id.us /LHS/sball04.htm   (1979 words)

  
 MetroActive Movies | 'Bringing Out the Dead'
In between trips there, Frank is dogged by hallucinations of a young girl he failed to save.
In the midst of this hell shift--with a heat wave and full moon both, "the streets are gonna run with blood"--Frank undertakes a shy courtship with the emotionally injured daughter of one of his patients (played by Patricia Arquette, Cage's real-life spouse).
When Frank is at the point of breakdown, florid hallucinations start bedeviling him, such as an actual "white horse" striding around a huge encampment of junkies he drives up to visit.
www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/10.27.99/bringingoutdead-9943.html   (918 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Movie : The Mysterious Pilot [Serial] : Main
Real-life flying ace Frank Hawks stars in the 15-chapter Columbia serial The Mysterious Pilot.
Running the gamut of emotions from A to B, Hawks is cast as Jim Dorn, mapma...
Running the gamut of emotions from A to B, Hawks is cast as Jim Dorn, mapmaker for the Royal Canadian Air Force.
www.vh1.com /movies/movie/101406/moviemain.jhtml   (160 words)

  
 Official NBS Giants Website!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The win sees the Hawks (11-5) join defending champions Auckland Stars Waitakere, NBS Nelson Giants and Scottwood Waikato Titans in the playoffs, and keeps alive their chances of claiming the regular season title if they can win their remaining two games.
Hawks scored the first eight points of overtime to seize control of the game for good.
Majstrovich has had to adjust to a positional change from power forward to swingman in a revamped Hawks frontcourt, but his first double double of the season clearly showed he is still a major force in the league, elevating him into the 2005 Player Power Rankings top 10 for the first time.
www.giants.co.nz /news.html   (3176 words)

  
 Northrop Gamma - Holcomb's Aerodrome
Frank Hawks, the director of the Aviation department for the Texas Company used it for a number of record breaking flights.
One was used by Frank Hawks on a South American sales tour.
Airplane returned to America where it was eventually sold to a trading company that in turn disassembled the aircraft and shipped it to Russia.
www.airminded.net /alpha/gamma.html   (1080 words)

  
 Cruise Critic Message Boards - ADVENTURE OF THE SEAS 8/22/04 - ANYONE?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Hi to Frank, Nancy and Ron - Nice to meet all of you.
Hi Frank- Yes, we are all booked on Continental.
No Frank, I have not had much luck with looking for Jeep rentals in Aruba.
boards.cruisecritic.com /showthread.php?t=15259   (1613 words)

  
 Dixie Wing, Commemorative Air Force
The Hell Hawks flew the famous Republic P-47 Thunderbolt and were assigned to the Ninth Air Force of the United States Army Air Force from December 1943 until the end of World War II.
The Hell Hawks provided close air support to United States and Allied forces in France, Belgium, and Germany and were awarded Distinguished Unit Citations in October 1944 and April 1945.
The Wyndham Peachtree Hotel and Conference Center is the official hotel for the Hell Hawks Symposium.
www.dixiewing.org /hellhawks   (311 words)

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