Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solidly on the Avenida Rio Branca for 720 ft., the distance of the hero's first flight. Artillery sounded the body into the grave, a five-minute Brazil-wide silence followed. Sea & land planes flew over in squadrons. At the grave was a great monument topped by a winged figure built by the dead man. All airplane manufacturers were asked to plaque Santos-Dumont's likeness on all new planes. The Brazilian Aero League asked pilots the world over to wear crepe on their wing insignia for one year, keep silence for five minutes during the burial...
...long, low, glass & concrete building with a flat roof upon which some day another section can be built. The parents got to work painting it, digging ditches, doing all the odd jobs that remained. Last fortnight was dedicated the second unit of Hessian Hills' new plant, a wing containing an auditorium, music room, shower baths and locker rooms. Half of the $12,000 that this cost was given by Manhattan Philanthropist George Dupont Pratt in memory of his wife whose name it bears, the rest by friends of the school. In these rooms as throughout the school...
Telefonica Safe. The heavy, heavy threat that International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.'s big Spanish subsidiary might lose its franchise was lifted last week. When Left-wing deputies demanded that the bill abrogating the contract be brought up for debate, Premier Azana requested that the Cortes refrain from discussion, declaring: "The Government takes full responsibility for the negotiations [with Compania Telefonica National de Espana for a new contract] . . . will stand or fall on the question." The Cortes voted 181 to 11 to let the Government stand, but not until after two excited deputies had started to pummel each other...
...last year's veterans through graduation, Cunningham, Wood, McGregor and Crosby, will be in some measure replaced by Pruyn, Lincoln, Watts, and Dow. Coach Stubbs has found no completely satisfactory substitutes for McGregor and Crosby at the defense posts, nor has any replacement been found for Cunningham at right wing. Pruyn, who had early training at Concord will probably prove one of the most brilliant ice stars over developed at Harvard. He was the mainstay of last year's Freshman team which won six out of seven games, succumbing only to Concord in an overtime period. Pruyn will probably play...
...maneuvers which require split-second timing and the accuracy of basketballers in passing. Lateral passes develop from forwards, forwards from laterals, spinners and reverses have complications impossible and unnecessary for amateur teams. There are few long end runs because professional ends are too fast to flank, almost no double wing back formations for the same reason. Serious injuries are rare, not because professionals lack zeal and dirty craft, but because, since substitutes are usually as able as the men they replace, there is nothing to be gained by disabling opponents...