Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...building, located on Divinity Avenue between the Farlow Herbarium and the Semitic Museum, is in the shape of an open C, the three wings forming a quadrangle to balance that of the University Museum opposite. The north wing, facing the Herbarium, is some 144 feet in length; the middle wing, at right angles to it, is approximately 250 feet long; and the south wing, adjoining the Semitic Museum, approaches the 300-foot mark, so that the total distance around the structure measures almost 700 feet...
Altitude. A scarlet-and-cream Lockheed-Vega, with handsome Socialite Ruth Nichols at the controls, roared into the sky over Manhattan, settled into a steady climb of nearly an hour's duration. A thermometer on the wing stopped registering at 45° below zero. A high west wind blew the ship backwards, nearly five miles out to sea. Miss Nichols, breathing oxygen that nearly froze her tongue, forced the ship higher and higher until fuel was exhausted, descended with an apparent altitude record for women (subject to confirmation) of more than 30,000 ft. Existing record...
Many a U. S. reader found to his surprise that Stephen Vincent Benét's John Brown's Body was readable and even thrilling, though a poem and a long one. If you are one who cannot stomach left-wing lyrics or metrically muted cries of despair, you may well find one or both of these narrative poems as agreeable a surprise as John Brown's Body...
...following men will represent the University: Foils: J. D. Allen '31; H. C. Cassidy '31; H. B. Wesselman '31. Epee: F. C. Flechter '32; T. I. Moran '32. Sabre: R. B. Lawson '32; W. M. Wing...
Cunningham, who prepared for college at Milton, is one of the outstandind athletes of the Junior class, having won his letter in both football and hockey. He played at wing all this year on the Crimson six having been shifted there from defence at the beginning of the season. Last year he teamed up on the defence with Batchelder and at the close of the season was selected on a mythical All-American sextet. He also captained his Freshman hockey team...