Bennett
['benit]
Definition
(noun.) United States aviator who (with Richard E. Byrd) piloted the first flight over the North Pole (1890-1928).
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Examples
- Mr. Arnold Bennett puts forth a rather curious hybrid when he advises us to treat ourselves as free agents and everyone else as an automaton. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- De Long, who had an earnest and protracted conversation with Edison over the Arctic expedition he was undertaking with the aid of Mr. James Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Mr. Edison himself describes various instances in which the demand for isolated plants had to be met: One night at '65,' he says, James Gordon Bennett came in. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In a very recent bright work published in London, by Richard Bennett and John Elton, on Corn Mills, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Perhaps that is the reason why Arnold Bennett's description of the siege of Paris in The Old Wives' Tale is so disconcerting to many people. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typist: Ronald