Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...observer had remarked that the plane behaved much as an alighting bird breasts the wind with its wings to check its speed, the comparison would have been more than poetical. The wings of the biplane, adjustable in flight, did just that. Lower and upper wings are rigidly connected with struts, remain in the same relation to each other. But by a hand-crank in the pilot's cockpit, the lower wing can be moved fore & aft, pendulum-like, through an arc of 14 degrees, tilting the upper wing to the same degree. About to land, the pilot sets...
...Author? Pierre Loving, 37, cosmopolitan Manhattanite, has lived much abroad. He knows intimately his left-wing Paris, Berlin, Vienna. Keen on his subject, thorough, Loving visited every spot where Baudelaire is known or supposed to have been, made many a minor find exciting to scholars. Then he settled down on the Riviera to write his book, but never missed a chance of watching Suzanne Lenglen play tennis, of dancing with her. Well-known as a critic, he has also written a play, The Stick-Up. He is now at work on a long critical study of Baudelaire's work, which...
Anne Green's brother, Julian Green, writes his very Frenchy, careful, depressing novels in French; has to be translated for the benefit of U. S. left-wing-readers. Not so his cheerful sister. So sprightly, charming, unrealistic a novelist is she that her first novel (The Selbys} was a U. S. best-seller in spite of her brother's heavy reputation. Reader, I Married Him pushes sprightliness, charm, unrealism even further...
Sabre; Lawson defeated Goldstein (N.Y.U.), 5-0, and Rose (N.Y.U.), 5-2. Rose (N.Y.U.), defeated W. M. Wing '31, 5-3. Zimmerman (N.Y.U.) defeated H. B. Walker...
...Again. From Lisbon last week the Dornier flying liner DO-X resumed its transatlantic passage begun three months ago at Lake Constance, Switzerland. The wing destroyed by fire at Lisbon had been rebuilt (TIME, Dec. S). Some of the fine interior fixings had been pulled out to make way for more fuel. The proposed course direct to the U. S. had been abandoned for a route via Rio de Janeiro. And Lieut. Clarence H. ("Dutch") Schildhauer, former U. S. Navy flyer, had returned from the U. S. to his post as copilot. The DO-X carried a crew...