Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hangar thrown open for the first time in two years to the gaze of the curious, workmen plied torch and hacksaw upon the metal framework of a great, grotesque airplane last week at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. It was the 20-passenger tandem-wing machine built, at an expense of about $500,000, by Emry Davis, 74, retired manufacturer of inks & inkwells. Eccentric Inventor Davis was killed last month when he tried to test a glider of the same design (TIME, March...
...Wing Leads in Sabres...
...pride of Adams House will be its lower common room, situated in the west wing of the new building facing Plympton Street. It is largely modeled after a room in a Florentine palace, which has served as the source of the Italianate interior decorations and furnishings. The reason for this luxurious treatment of the room is due to the fact that it was planned when the out-of-date Russell-Hall was to be a part of Adams House. Thus the Lower Common Room was to serve as a balancing feature, but with announcement of a new building to take...
...rear of the addition toward Mill Street will contain a tutor's common room, a serving room, and the main passage to the Master's house, which is to occupy the second, third, and fourth floors of the new wing. From the dining hall, a covered passage will lead through what is now D entry into the quadrangle of McKinlock Hall. A small hallway will connect the present Common Room with this passage, the little doorway beside the fireplace in the southeast corner of the room, being the entrance. Thus one may pass directly from the Common Room into...
Work on the smaller wing of the new building will doubtless be delayed until the raising of further sums of money, the amount now on hand being sufficient only to complete the two larger ones. For this reason, the whole laboratory will not be available for use at the same time, and the date of the official opening cannot be estimated with certainty. The plans for the court of the quadrangle have not been definitely determined, but they will probably include walks leading up the center to the main entrance...