Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate he wears frock coats and high wing collars, declaims his speeches, mixes his metaphors and keeps both ears to the Virginia ground simultaneously. Attacks of indigestion sometimes cause him to faint. His secretary tries to suppress publication of such incidents. A Swanson fainting spell that got into print once cost the Senator some $25,000 in additional campaign expenses to convince his constituents he was not an invalid. Admirals expect him to give them a free hand running the Navy...
...fire station will be of Colonial architecture, designed to harmonize with the surrounding buildings of the College. it will consist of a main building, parallel to Broadway, and a wing, parallel to Quincy Street. The main building will be of brick, three and one-half stories high, topped with a state roof and a belfry. The wing will be of wood and two stories in height only. The station will contain the fire apparatus for this vicinity...
Within the coupe the driver steps on his gas throttle; the propeller whirls noisily and the queer craft scoots along the road. ... At the airport the driver fetches a monoplane wing, bolts it into place just abaft the cabin door. A fuselage tail, with control surfaces, is hooked onto the coupe's bustle-like stern (see cut). The driver (now a pilot) steps on the same gas throttle as before, steers with the same steering wheel, prods the same foot-brake, kites down the runway, climbs...
That latest ship accounts for Granville's new importance, and answers an often-heard question: "What good are air races?" The latest Gee-Bee is of radical design, a fat bumblebee of a plane with small wings and an enormous tail. Wags dubbed it "the flying silo." Last week Zantford Granville began construction of a barrel-shaped transport ship patterned directly after the racer. Its wing is larger but its fuselage is barrel-shaped, its tail big, its nose fat to hold a 700-h.p. Cyclone. With pilot & seven passengers it is supposed to cruise 197 m.p.h...
...answer to the declaration made yesterday by managers of the recently formed Undergraduates Laundry that the Students' Laundry has been absorbed by the Creamer-Wing Company, the following statement was made last night by the trustees...