Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Randolph Halls on Bow Street. Apthorp House will serve as the Master's residence. The new building now under construction will contain the library, two comfortably furnished common rooms, a committee room for the use of student organizations and for the various committees of the House. Its southern wing will form the dining hall, a panelled room, which will accommodate all the members of the House. It is connected with Westmorly Court by a serving room, and by a passage for the members of the House. Adams House will have its own kitchen, newly installed in the basement of Westmorly...
...American Academy of Arts & Letters opened a new wing of its Manhattan building, met (50 academicians) with 18 delegates from foreign academies, announced the election of five new members: Novelist Edith Wharton (second female to be elected, the first having been Poetess Julia Ward Howe, who died in 1910), Poet Robert Frost, Professor Irving Babbitt, Sculptor George Grey Barnard, Biographer James Truslow Adams; taking places left vacant by the deaths of Thomas Hastings, Frank V. van der Stucken, Arthur Twining Hadley, Brander Matthews, George Edward Woodberry. Corresponding members elected were Poet Sir William Watson, Poet Laureate John Masefield...
...ugly impression of negligence, or at least undue haste, grew yet higher with the testimony of Vice-Marshal Dowding. Fearing the dirigible was unfit for the long voyage, he said, he ordered Wing Commander R. B. B. Colmore (another crash victim) to run a full power test as soon as possible after casting off from the mooring mast at Cardington. Apparently this order was ignored...
...that he will start there. With Trafford and Kales both playing at top form, a three cornered battle is now going on for Harvard's two tackle positions. Harding remained out of the dummy scrimmage yesterday, but will probably line up at one end with Moushegian at the opposite wing...
...agape as his plane, nose down, roared earthward in a power dive, pulled up and over in a perfectly executed loop. Long Lance climbed back into the sky and the dumfounded watchers heard his motor die to a hiss, saw the ship stall, saw it "fall off" on one wing and into what every novice should dread?a tailspin. The motor barked again, and Long Lance pulled out and into a gentle landing. Grinning, Long Lance clambered from his cockpit to face school discipline for his antics. But he was let off with a warning...