Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alighting from his train in Washington, Vice President Garner again withdrew into a stony silence on national affairs. The next time newsmen saw him he was wandering around the House wing of the Capitol. He did not deny that he was "homesick for the old place." In a brighter mood, he pounded his small paunch. "Look at this waistline," he cried. "Know how I shaved off four inches this summer? Every day I went out to my pecan orchard and stooped over 125 times, picking up one nut each time. Say, that's great exercise...
...other six planes are to be Lockheed Electros, another new twin-engined low-wing monoplane which is also supposed to do 200 m.p.h. The newer fleet will be used to retire obsolete 120 m.p.h. tri-motors on Pan American's routes through Mexico, Central and South America...
...attempt to remedy the ragged playing and lack of cooperation which the team has shown in its previous games, Coach Stubbs has switched Duffey from left wing to center taking the place of Beale and put Kirkland in the former's position. Watts will go to the left side of the defense so that Lane may take his place at right defense...
...first game yesterday the Junior Varsity Hockey team defeated the Whitman Hockey Club by a score of 4-1 at the Boston Garden. Scoring power was suddenly displayed in the second period when Robert H. Rawson '36, playing at left wing, started the ball rolling with two goals in the first minute...
...convening of Congress and the accession of Mr. LaGuardia as mayor of New York City find the executive wing of the government triumphant over the legislative in both city and national affairs. Mr. LaGuardia has demanded what amounts to dictatorial power over the finances of the city of New York, and it seems extremely likely that he will get it, for the credit of the city is in such a sad state that heroic measures must be resorted to in order to save...