Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Suddenly they all go into a dance, do a double shuffle, a stationary skating motion and bump fundaments by twos. Audiences roar with astonishment. Mickey's cat and dog chase one another into a pair of drawers on a line. The drawers stand up and do a buck & wing. A bedspring rises on end. Mickey twangs the strings and it becomes a harp. Anything may take on life and humanity, express itself. A singing bird does its scales like a tyro, gulps, quivers and heaves like a diva, perches on the sheet music on the piano rack and turns...
Whether Russia was the cause or Japan was only feinting, Chinese troops hopped into armored trains and rushed up the coast after the withdrawing Japanese, reoccupying village after village. And before the coast troops' withdrawal could be interpreted as a grand Chinese victory, the Japanese right wing suddenly commenced a slashing inland attack on the Chinese troops of General Ho Ying-ching. 60 mi. from Peiping. The latter dug in against airplanes and siege guns and fought like alley cats. After an eight-day battle that cost China 4,600 admitted casualties, Japan occupied Nantienmen. For the first time...
...propellers. One after another these machines dove into Lake Garda, carrying to death in turn the crack pilots of the high speed school-Monti, Bellini, Dal Molin. Neri-until last month when Agello triumphed. British airmen maintain that the Macchi's phenomenal speed is due to a reduced wing span which makes its landing speed more than two miles a minute, a lower safety factor than is permitted in Great Britain. The S. B.-Rolls-Royce ship which won the last Schneider Trophy for Great Britain landed at about 90 m. p. h. At Orbetello, 60 mi. from Rome...
...pheasant, with a broken wing, which ventured into the Eliot House quadrangle, was shot by residents of the House yesterday morning. The bird was buried in the quadrangle and a tablet erected over the grave...
...years of poverty-pinched wandering, by a bullet through his lung. An operation saved him. He began to write for provincial newspapers, under the name Maxim Gorki (from gor'kii, "the bitter one"), then sociological novels and plays. He joined the Social Democrats, later the Bolshevist wing, was arrested on Bloody Sunday (January 22, 1905) in St. Petersburg. Exiled till 1913, he lived in Capri, corresponding with Lenin and working for the labor movement. After the Revolution he dedicated himself to cultural work among the Russian masses, but the Russian climate was too much for his bad lung...