Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...combined sight & sound advertising mechanism is owned and operated by Plane Speaker Corp.. whose president is famed Charles Lanier Lawrance. designer of the Wright Whirlwind engine. The talking sign-carrier is a five-year-old bomber which boasts the largest wing- area in the U. S. Its new generators can produce enough current to light 100 small homes. Its loudspeaker is 1.600,000 times as loud as the human voice. Its reverberations can kill butterflies, stun birds. Its five operators and pilots converse inside the cabin only by telegraph...
...from a squad of 32 men failed to get into the game. George S. Ford, playing center on the first forward line, starred throughout his time on the ice, and made the first Harvard score after 45 seconds in the rink. Charles M. Talbot '37, who was left wing on the second line, managed to score the third tally on a pass from Robert C. Holcombe '37, playing in the right forward position, in what was one of the few attempts at team work during the afternoon. A minute later, Holcombe made the final Harvard goal...
...Freshman hockey team will open its season today with a game against Belmont Hill School at 2 o'clock in the Boston Garden. Starting in the forward line will be Leo A. Ecker at left wing, George S. Ford at center, and Louis B. Carr at right. James N. Kidder will hold which contains a sprinkling of well-known preparatory school stars. In spite of the fact that the team has a nucleus of men who have done well in school hockey, the exceptional warm winter last year with only four days of good out door ice handicaps the team...
Sample of Karl and the 20th Century's style, method: "In Switzerland that same evening, at Kiental, where a conference of left-wing socialists was being held, Lenin gave a renewed demonstration of the way in which the imperialist war could be transformed into a class war. In the United States there was being founded the Allied Chemical & Dye Company, a combine of the chemical manufacturers of the Land of the Almighty Dollar. At Philadelphia, Frederick W. Taylor died after being ill for nine days with an attack of pneumonia, on his fifty-ninth birthday, and two hours after...
...flown by Dean Smith, onetime Byrd antarctic pilot, had engine trouble between Buffalo and Detroit, flopped down, with nine passengers and a crew of three, upon the thinly iced surface of Lake St. Clair, near Windsor. Ont. With wheels retracted, the plane bumped through the ice while the lower wing supported the craft. Passengers and crew clambered atop the upper wing, huddled in the darkness until rescuers took them ashore...