Word: sateen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sateen Wings. Though Orville was four years younger, he and Wilbur had worked as a team since they were boys. Sons of a United Brethren bishop (there were two other brothers and a sister), they liked to make things for themselves. They quit high school and opened a bicycle shop. In 1896, they read about the fatal crash of Otto Lilienthal, a German scientist who had been experimenting with gliders. They sent to the Smithsonian 'Institution for all the information there was on flying (there wasn't much), and asked the Weather Bureau to recommend a place where...
...three years, they battled Kitty Hawk's mosquitoes and sandfleas and flew their gliders off a high dune called Kill Devil Hill. They sewed the sateen for the wings on a neighbor's sewing machine. They figured out a way to warp the wings to keep the plane on an even keel (the principle of present-day ailerons). They built the first wind tunnel out of an old starch box, tried hundreds of different wing shapes, found that practically all published data on flying were useless...
...health and age make it necessary that I should be relieved of the duties which I have been discharging with increasing difficulty." The Chief Justice's retirement marked the end of a period. When the Justices stood up after their last session this week, disappeared through the tall sateen-covered curtains behind their chairs and shucked their robes, they were more than eight judges beginning their vacations. The old Court that had blocked Franklin Roosevelt's first New Deal-Butler, Sutherland, Van Devanter, McReynolds-had disappeared, by death or resignation. The transitional Court, of which Chief Justice Hughes...