Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly 280,000 specimens. Last week the Museum's President Henry Fairfield Osborn announced that Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and her three children had presented the Tring collection as a memorial to their husband & father, the late Harry Payne Whitney.* It will be housed in the new Whitney Wing (now nearing completion), for which Sportsman Whitney left $750,000 and New York City added an equal amount. Many of the birds will eventually be mounted for public display, but most will be available and of interest only to scientists. Lord Rothschild specialized in rare and disappearing species, got among...
...gusty December day in 1903, on the slope of a sand dune on a North Carolina coastal reef, Orville Wright started the tiny engine of a flimsy biplane, crawled aboard the lower wing and lay prone at the crude controls. The machine began to move. Brother Wilbur ran alongside steadying the wing. The ship left the ground, jerkily trod the wind for twelve marvelous seconds, nosed into the sand. A powered airplane had flown...
John R. Tunis, of the sports writers' left wing, sings rather an exultant dirge over the corpse in an Atlantic Monthly article. "Every evidence shows that the game is being killed," he concludes, "by its own excesses. To argue that this is good or bad is useless. Football's day is done." He attributes the collapse of the football boom of the 1920's to a realization on the part of undergraduates--first articulated by the Harvard CRIMSON in 1925--that the game had developed into a top-heavy exhibition for the glorification of a few for the amusement...
...deep respect for the rights of property and hence many a continental who is afraid of keeping his money at home, keeps it in Switzerland. This and the fact that Switzerland's well trained secret service gives short shrift to Communists or professional agitators enrages the country's left-wing Socialists...
Lean, long-haired James Maxton, M. P., famed for his fiery leadership of Britain's Laborite left wing, fidgeted like a schoolboy when he was told that Sir John Lavery, famed painter of beauteous women, had called him "the most remarkable man in the House of Commons" and wanted to do his portrait. Protested he: "I've never had my portrait painted, I might not like it, or, which would be worse, I might not be a good sitter. He might make me too like myself...