Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fogg Art Museum is holding from November 5 to November 30 in the Northwest wing a lean exhibition of reproductions of Japanese prints and bronzes. The subject matter is mainly taken from nature; animals, plants, and birds. Two seventeenth century artists, Korin and Shokado, are particularly well represented. Some prints of Ryskist a modern, afford an interesting comparison between the old and the modern style...
...Club has its head quarters at the Boston Metropolitan Airport, near Norwood, where the Wiggins Airways has put their planes at the disposal of the club. The following planes are available at a very reasonable rate to the members of the club: Aero Marine Taylor Club, two Spartan Low Wings, Kinner Low Wing Cirrus Fairchild 22, Warner Fairchild 24, and other types...
...bases of steel gridirons, are positively earthquake proof. Let Tokyo heave and they might slide down the hill, but instead of collapsing they would "float" on the wavering sea of earth. L-shaped, the uncollapsible Embassy home is faced with white stucco, has a dining room in the left wing of the L, a living room in the right wing, a State staircase in the crotch. Of marble is the Ambassador's outdoor swimming pool and he may refresh himself and guests in three tiny tea houses in the domain...
...navigator, Kingsford-Smith flew unerringly 1,700 mi. over the Pacific towards his first stop?Suva, Fiji Islands. There he was delayed a week by storms ahead. On the 3,200-mi. water jump to Honolulu Kingsford-Smith, fumbling in the cockpit during a rainstorm, accidentally knocked down the wing flaps. The plane whipped into a stall, spun down 8.000 ft. into the swirling blackness before he could bring it out. Unnerved but undiscouraged. the aviators swooped into Pearl Harbor to complete in 25 hours the second leg of the world's most hazardous over-water air course...
Died. Field Marshal Alexander von Kluck, 88, spearhead of the German onslaught on Paris in 1914; of old age; in Berlin. On the German right wing, he marched with startling swiftness through Belgium and northern France. Almost in sight of Paris but separated from von Billow's army and unable to keep communications open, he was beaten at the Marne and subsequently blamed by some tacticians for the German retreat. Few months later he was wounded and retired...