Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girl who turns out to be the admiral's daughter; his antics when she takes him home to amuse her father and her fiancé, Brown's lieutenant; his attempt to escape by a trellis, which breaks and lets him fall; his eventual departure on the wing of an airplane...
...symbols that will not frighten the commonest sense. Interpreter Meier-Graefe's biography of crazy Painter van Gogh is known already to a few U. S. readers (the Medici Society, London, first published it in a limited de luxe edition, 1922). Significant of the increased interest in left-wing artists and writers is this revised translation, sponsored by the Literary Guild. An artist in his own right, Biographer Meier-Graefe has fused van Gogh's letters into a narrative that reads at times like a Dostoyevsky novel, that has the advantage over other novels-about-artists in that...
...first real tilt between the "Brain Trust" and the so called "practical" wing of the Roosevelt administration has re-suited in a shift of governmental agencies so as to take due account of the temperamental difficulties that had come into conflict with each other...
According to the present outlook, the first line will be composed of Hasler and Beale, at left wing and center respectively, retaining the positions they held on the third string line of last year's Varsity squad. With them at right wing will be Dunbar Holmes '35, a newcomer to Varsity ranks. As second string line it appears that Coach Stubbs will select William A. Lincoln '35, third string wing last year, Samuel R. Callaway '36, and Arthur F. Duffey, Jr. '36, both of whom had experience on the Freshman team last year...
...most important groups of initials in the New Deal is the modest, but far-reaching experiment in the South, the T.V.A., which, being interpreted, means the Tennessee Valley Authority. Headed by David Lillienthal and Frank Morgan, this offspring of the Administration's left-wing is beginning to cause no small commotion over its plans and projects. All the doughty adherents of decentralization in industry are rallying around with drum and fife, eager to explore the possibilities of small units of production based on partial or complete use of the cheap electricity which the series of gigantic dams and power plants...