Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Saltonstall plays right wing on the Freshman sextet, and has been outstanding for the Crimson in the two games which have been played this season. He prepared at both Milton Academy and Phillips Exeter Academy, and was a member of the football squad at both schools. He also was conspicuous on the Milton hockey team in 1927 and on the Exeter sextet in 1928 and 1929, being hockey captain there last year. In addition, he rowed on the crew at Exeter last spring...
...unused to seeing the scars of War are employes at the U. S. Pension Bureau. But last week they looked, and looked at a face such as few of them had ever seen. Across the forehead was branded a huge double eagle, the wing tips reaching to the temples, the tail running half way down the nose. Beneath the branded eagle, faintly discernible, was the outline of a huge spider...
...safest plane and $10.000 for each of five safe ones which could meet the competition's harsh but just tests. Only 15 planes appeared at Mitchel Field, L. I.. for trial. Six withdrew without trying. Others failed. Last week only two possible winners remained, the slotted-wing Curtiss (TIME, Jan. 6) and Frederick Handley Page's slotted-wing entry, an English make. The Handley Page failed, although only because it could not glide for three minutes at 38 m. p. h. or less, as the Tanager succeeded in doing...
...Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. went the $100.000 prize, and to the Federal Court in Brooklyn went Frederick Handley Page with a lawsuit for $300,000 (the prize money tripled), claiming that the Tanager's slotted wing was an infringement of his patent...
With the return of F. R. Stubbs, Sophomore wing who was injured in the second Toronto game, to the lineup Harvard's starting sextet will be changed again. Stubbs, back at his old post at right wing, and Putnam will flank Garrison, at center. Cunningham will be at one of the defense posts again but will have a new partner in Crosby, who has gained the other job because of his fine work against Michigan Tech. Crosby is a converted wing and played defense for the first time against M. I. T. in the game a week ago tonight...