Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bernardino Bilbao Rioja and his 2nd Bolivian Division have smashed the 2nd Paraguayan Division, cut off the 7th Paraguayan from establishing contact with the 8th, and completely encircled the left wing of the Paraguayan force. . . . Collecting the great number of Paraguayan wounded has placed a heavy burden on all Bolivian detachments." Later figures gave Paraguayan losses at 3,000 dead, 5,000 wounded, 1,633 prisoners including 78 officers. Paraguay did not take this defeat quietly. To the League's Secretary in Geneva Ramon Caballero de Bedoya announced that, to its great regret, Paraguay was about to embark...
...President announced plans for $120,000 alterations to his executive offices: to extend a wing 60 ft. southward, providing a new office for himself, a new meeting room for the Cabinet and a new room for one of his secretaries; to convert his present office and the Cabinet room into offices for the overcrowded and overworked secretarial staff now working in the basement and in the Department of State across the street...
...craft of his own devising. To laymen the name of Glenn L. Martin has today receded into the dim anonymity of military aviation, but in his youth Glenn Martin was his own able pressagent. He barnstormed with a lady parachute jumper who perched in pink tights on the wing of his plane. He made an astonishing flight of 28 mi. offshore to Catalina Island. He took up Mary Pickford for her first flight, turned down cinema contracts...
Hard-shelled old conservatives glare askance at today's young left-wing novelists, grumble that these youths have sold their birthright of dreams for a mess of revolutionary economics. Left-wing critics retort that while the nightmare of the capitalist system persists, no young writer worth his salt can close his eyes to it. Many a "proletarian novel" is rightly thrown out of the literary court as mere advertising for the Communist cause; but the literary sergeants-at-arms will think twice before they begin hustling Robert Cantwell's Land of Plenty. Though diehard right-wingers will call...
...hockey, the right play sometimes has the wrong result. With Goodfellow in the penalty box. Chicago's Manager Tommy Gorman sent a new forward line on the ice. Detroit, handicapped by one less man than their opponents, had no one to cover Chicago's small right wing, Harold March. Chicago's Romnes got the puck in mid-ice, passed to March. March turned in from the sideboards, whisked past the Detroit goaltender a waist-high shot that ended the game, 1-to-0, the series...