Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that menaces airplanes usually forms on the leading edge of the wings. Goodrich has developed a "deicer" consisting of a pair of rubber tubes which ordinarily lie flat against the wing. When ice formation begins the tubes are pulsated by an air pump. This movement cracks the ice coat, lets the wind blow it away .The "deicer" is already in use on some transport planes, is slated for thorough experiment on military aircraft...
...noticeable that Lee, Ecker was moved from fullback to left half, or wing back, for this scrimmage. Just how much significance this had is difficult to say. Perhaps Harlow is definitely figuring on transforming Ecker as he has Vornon Struck, Struck, incidentally, continued as a wing back yesterday, though Moseley had the call as first-string left halfback in the "A" lineup
...Byrns one vast crinkly mass of smiles; Representative Bertrand Snell, the dour New Yorker who leads what is left of the House Republicans, seemed positively cheerful. The fact that his mission had its serious diplomatic side, to show the Orient that the U. S. eagle still has a protective wing over the Philippines,* was not evident in irrepressibly democratic Mr. Garner's farewell remarks...
...York Stock Exchange last week that stock explanation would no longer do. Pools are now banned by law. Nevertheless, it took less than half an eye to see that Chrysler's spectacular performance was not due solely to bright motor prospects. Rumors took wing that SEC's eagle-eyed trading inspectors had seen all they needed...
...more forwards and a halfback crowd the ball at the same moment of attack. A fullback is discovered carrying the ball beyond the center of the field. A wing halfback leaves his outside forward to wrestle by himself with the opposition up in the corner of the field. A minute later the same outside forward is caught down field. A center forward tries to beat a pair of men in mid-field...