Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nominated for Vice President in 1924, declined to run. Ac tive in the steel strike of 1919. the packinghouse strikes of 1920, he was for six years editor of the People's Voice at Green Bay, Wis., is still editor of the Organized Farmer of Red Wing, Minn. Five years ago he addressed an envelope to a Red Wing banker thus: "R. W. Putnam, robber of widows and orphans." Tried and convicted in Federal court of sending defamatory matter through the mails, he was fined $500, sentenced to a year and a day in the Leavenworth Penitentiary. In Washington...
...clause which reserved for the United States the right to hold its naval bases on those islands. They quite rightly pointed out that if we did hold armed control over any part of their soil, in the eyes of other nations they would still be under the colonial wing of the U.S.A., that complete autonomy necessarily gave to them sole military powers over their own territories...
...most drastic shuffle occurring when Captain Joe Gilligan went from center to defense. His place was taken by a Sophomore on the third line. Bob Cooke, who flanks another second-year man. Jim Mills, at center, while the trio is completed by Warren Colby, 1935, on the left wing. The second line, which has been Yale's most effective combination all season, has remained intact, with Roger Shepard at center, flanked by Tom Rodd and Doug Robinson, the team's high scorer. Johnny Snyder in the nets, and George Robson at defense complete the starting six which will face Harvard...
...wing attached to the fire station is the new fire alarm headquarters for the city of Cambridge and there the Fire Department jealously guards the delicate signal system. No pains have been spared to make the alarm headquarters foolproof and fire-proof. To safeguard the equipment against fire, each window is equipped with jets for a "water curtain" and also a steel curtain which falls automatically if a fire breaks out nearby. Both of these protections work on the principle of the automatic sprinkler system--that is, the metal with which the ends of the jets are covered melts...
...perfectly true that Washington could do very well with a dozen economists above the stature of Messrs. Warren and Pearson, and could tap the expertise resources of the country with more discretion than it has shown so far, it is not true, nevertheless, that those of the Left Wing are either blind to the possibilities of their measures, or, on the other hand, filled with the shining vision of the Kremlin as God's beacon in a benighted world. Henry Wallace's article in the Sunday Times revealed a keen, practical man quite cognizant of the alternatives before the nation...