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Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright 1756-93, American portrait painter, b. Bordentown, N.J., son of Patience Lovell Wright. He studied under Benjamin West in London, where he painted the prince of Wales (later George IV). Wright worked briefly in Paris, where he knew Franklin, whose letters of recommendation enabled him... Read more
James Wright
James Wright 1927-80, American poet, b. Ohio. He studied at Kenyon College and the Univ. of Washington. The master of an elegant, beautifully controlled style, his early poems contained surrealistic juxtapositions. Later works abandoned willed complexity in favor of a plainer diction. His works inc... Read more
Jim Wright
Jim Wright (James Claud Wright, Jr.), 1922-, U.S. congressman, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1987-89), b. Fort Worth, Tex. Following service in the U.S. army during World War II, Wright was a Texas state representative (1947-49) and mayor of Weatherford, Tex. (1950-54). He was elect... Read more
Wright brothers

Wright brothers

The American aviation pioneers Wilbur (1867-1912) and Orville (1871-1948) Wright were the first to accomplish manned, powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine.

Wilbur and Orville Wright were the sons... Read more

Henry Wright
Henry Wright 1878-1936, American landscape architect and community planner, b. Lawrence, Kans., studied architecture at the Univ. of Pennsylvania. He was widely recognized as a leader in the movement for the building of better communities. He served (1918) as town planner for the Housing Division o... Read more
Richard Wright
Richard Wright 1908-60, American author. An African American born on a Mississippi plantation, Wright struggled through a difficult childhood and worked to educate himself. He moved to Chicago in 1927 and in the 1930s joined the city's Federal Writers' Project and wrote Uncle Tom's Children (1938... Read more
Wright Morris
Wright Morris (Wright Marion Morris), 1910-98, American writer, b. Central City, Nebr. He was for many years professor of English at San Francisco State College (now San Francisco State Univ.). His fiction treats the relationship of the burden of American history to the present, and the evolution a... Read more
Frances Wright
Frances Wright (Fanny Wright), 1795-1852, Scottish-American reformer, later known as Mme Darusmont, b. Dundee, Scotland. After her first tour (1818-20) of the United States she wrote an enthusiastic account of her travels, Views of Society and Manners in America (1821). In 1824 she returned to th... Read more
Judith Wright
Judith Wright (Judith Arundell Wright), 1915-2000, Australian poet. After graduating from the Univ. of Sydney, she worked variously as a clerk, secretary, and statistician. She is regarded as one of the most important Australian writers of the 20th cent. Her lyric poetry is marked by sensitivity of... Read more
Stanton Macdonald-Wright
Stanton Macdonald-Wright 1890-1973, American artist, b. Charlottsville, Va. Macdonald-Wright was among the first Americans to paint in a totally abstract mode. Together with Morgan Russell , he founded synchromism in 1912. In paintings such as Oriental Synchromy in Blue-Green (1918; Whitney Mus.... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Wright"

Wright, Frank Lloyd
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 – 1959) was considered one of the most influential...influenced every sphere of twentieth century architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the most dramatic and eccentric U.S. geniuses...
Wright Brothers
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Their beginnings in flight The Wrights took up the problem of flight...power for manned flight. The Wright brothers began by accumulating...thorough experiments. The Wrights decided that earlier attempts...First trip to Kitty Hawk The Wright brothers proceeded to fly double...
Wright, Richard
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography Richard Wright Born: September 4, 1908 Natchez, Mississippi...African American writer The works of Richard Wright, a politically sophisticated and socially...Southern upbringing Richard Nathaniel Wright was born in Natchez, Mississippi, on...
Wright, James Skelly
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law WRIGHT, JAMES SKELLY James Skelly Wright served as a federal district judge in Louisiana from 1949 to...1981, he was the chief judge of the D.C. Circuit Court. Wright distinguished himself as a district judge during the 1950s when...
Wright, Jane Cooke
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Jane Cooke Wright American physician Jane Cooke Wright (born 1919) was a prominent twentieth-century cancer researcher. The daughter of a prominent physician, Jane Cooke Wright followed her father into medicine and eventually became the...
Frank Lloyd Wright
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Frank Lloyd Wright The American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959) designed dramatically innovative buildings...or successful, among American architects, Frank Lloyd Wright set himself the task, as no previous architect had, of...
Richard Wright
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Richard Wright The works of Richard Wright (1908-1960), politically sophisticated and socially involved...perceptive about the universal problems that plague mankind. Richard Wright was born in Natchez, Miss., on Sept. 4, 1908. His mother...
Elizur Wright
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Elizur Wright Elizur Wright (1804-1885) was an American reformer whose interests ranged from...at home in a government bureau as on the speaker's stump. Elizur Wright, born in Connecticut on Feb. 12, 1804, was descended from moderately...
Carroll Davidson Wright
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Carroll Davidson Wright The American statistician and social economist Carroll Davidson Wright (1840-1909) organized the Bureau of Labor...objective research on labor problems. Carroll Wright was born on July 25, 1840, in Dun-barton...
Wright, Orville and Wilbur
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...in Europe and America. The Wrights never doubted that world governments...financiers, they founded the Wright Company to build and sell airplanes...S. military airmen. The Wrights taught many officers to fly...War II. Wilbur and Orville Wright achieved an extraordinarily...

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Wright, Frank Lloyd Lincoln
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Wright, Frank Lloyd Lincoln (1869–...Sullivan until 1893. While revering Sullivan, Wright was also influenced by Owen Jones , the...and terraces, suggested in the schemes Wright published in the Ladies' Home Journal...
Wright, Willard Huntingdon
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art Wright, Willard Huntingdon (1888–...brother of the painter Stanton Macdonald-Wright . He was born in Charlottesville, Virginia...recently founded by his brother. In 1915 Wright returned to New York, via London, and...
Wright, Wilbur
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...when their father, Milton Wright, gave them a toy helicopter...proved disappointing, the Wright brothers realized that the...their invention. In 1908, the Wrights secured a U.S. Army contract...position of president of the Wright Company (founded in 1909...
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military Wright-Patterson Air Force Base located in Dayton...numerous Department of Defense organizations, Wright-Patterson AFB is a major center for aviation...as McCook Field, it was joined by Wilbur Wright Field in 1924, located on land donated...
Wright, Horatio Gouverneur
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military Wright, Horatio Gouverneur (1820–...Clinton, Connecticut, Horatio Gouverneur Wright graduated from West Point in 1841 with a...the battle of Spotsylvania in May 1864, Wright became the corps commander. He led that...
Wright, Joseph Jefferson Burr
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military Wright, Joseph Jefferson Burr (1801–...techiques to use quinine to combat malaria. Wright skillfully administered hospitals for both...During the first year of the Civil War , Wright served as the medical director for the Departments...
Wright, John Michael
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists Wright, John Michael (1617–94...Magdalen Aston , Castle Mus., Nottingham). Wright's most unusual work is an allegorical...greatest master of his time’). Wright was a collector, antiquarian, and scholar...
Wright, Joseph
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Wright, Joseph ( b Derby, 3 Sept. 1734; d Derby...in his native city and generally known as Wright of Derby. He was one of the most original...lights’. In 1768–71 Wright worked in Liverpool, and in 1773–...
Wright, John Lloyd
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Wright, John Lloyd (1892–1973). American architect, son of Frank Lloyd Lincoln Wright . He trained in his father's studio at...children's toy, and in 1949 the first of his Wright Blocks, inspired by his father's enthusiasm...
Macdonald-Wright, Stanton
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art Macdonald-Wright, Stanton (1890–1973). American...art. In 1914–16 Macdonald-Wright lived in London, where he helped his brother, the critic Willard Huntington Wright , with his book Modern Painting: Its Tendency...

Thesaurus entries related to "Wright"

craftsman, craftswoman
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English craftsman, craftswoman • noun   synonyms : master, expert, skilled worker, dedicated/meticulous worker, artist, artificer, artisan, technician, maker, smith, wright.
imitation
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English imitation • noun   1. the house was built in imitation of Frank Lloyd Wright synonyms : emulation, resemblance. See imitate 1.   2. the comic's imitations of celebrities synonyms : mimicking...
look
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus look • verb   1. Mrs. Wright looked at him synonyms : glance at, gaze at, stare at, gape at, peer at; peep at, peek, take a look at; watch, observe...
artisan
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus artisan • noun  artisans from around North America will demonstrate their crafts synonyms : craftsman, craftswoman, craftsperson; skilled worker, technician; smith, wright, journeyman; archaic artificer.

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Barry Wright Corp. adds details to restructuring. (includes text of letter)
PR Newswire; 10/13/1988; 700+ words ; BARRY WRIGHT CORP. ADDS DETAILS TO RESTRUCTURING NEWTON...Mass., Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Barry Wright Corporation (NYSE: BAR) announced today...contemplated by Phase Two is the sale of Wright Line Inc. to Wright Acquisition Corporation...
WRIGHT FLYER III FLIES AGAIN OVER HUFFMAN PRAIRIE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 10/10/2007; 700+ words ; ...But ultimately what the Wrights managed to achieve over...chance to recreate the Wright brothers' legacy before...certain kinship with the Wright brothers and their quest...upon his study of the Wrights' diaries, he assesses...allow him to return to Wright-Patterson and Huffman...
Richard Wright: A Collection of Critical Essays.
Magazine article from: African American Review; 3/22/1997; ; 700+ words ; Arnold Rampersad, ed. Richard Wright: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood...Library of America edition of the works of Richard Wright, has added another dimension to Richard Wright scholarship with the publication of Richard Wright...
Wright likes it here -- for now: But the Warriors' rookie has heard the Garnett trade talk and knows his stay in Oakland may be short.
Newspaper article from: Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA); 7/3/2007; 700+ words ; ...OAKLAND -- Rookie forward Brandan Wright held up a white home jersey bearing the...year's experience at North Carolina, Wright spoke like a seasoned veteran when talking...Until you actually get on the court," Wright said, "you don't know what's going...
WRIGHT AIDE QUITS AMID QUESTIONS ON CRIME
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/12/1989; ; 700+ words ; ...convict and a top aide to House Speaker Jim Wright, resigned yesterday amid growing questions about why Wright used his influence in a way that helped...year sentence in a county jail after Wright told a judge that he would employ Mack...
Wright jabs his way to a masterpiece.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL); 5/15/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...first punch. All of which makes Winky Wright's accomplishment Saturday night against...punchers, so remarkable. For 12 rounds Wright pitched a near shutout. He held former...unofficial ringside count that credited Wright as scoring on 262 pinpoint blows. Most...
Wright attitude has IU unbeaten
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 12/19/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...SLIGHTLY FROM PRINTED VERSION Indiana's Bracey Wright has scored in double figures in all eight games...PHOTO - Color) (ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO) Wright(PHOTO - Color) Bracey Wright has burst onto Indiana's basketball scene as...
Wright's `Native Son' rises once again
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/28/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...and shocking books this century, Richard Wright has often been relegated to a second-class...have witnessed a resurgence of interest in Wright and his work. The first film biography of Wright, "Richard Wright -- Black Boy," has its...
Wright offering fresh fodder to Obama critics
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times (IL); 4/24/2008; ; 671 words ; The controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright -- Sen. Barack Obama's pastor...divinity conference of black church leaders. Wright's decision to headline an event at the...Meanwhile, PBS is touting an interview with Wright to be broadcast Friday on "Bill Moyers...
Wright plans on being a Kansas man for a while
Newspaper article from: Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL); 3/16/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...blinded by their own celebrity. For Julian Wright, his White Sox ski cap was just a way...underling returned from the loading dock for Wright, who nonetheless had managed to satisfy...19 is being a college student - even if Wright has had to stave off the boredom of Lawrence...