Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Solicitor-General of the U. S., correct in morning coat, wing collar and striped sponge-bag pants, last week appeared before the U. S. Supreme Court to attack a foreign-born lunchroom proprietor of Hot Springs, Ark. in a case fateful for all alien radicals in the U. S. Important also for Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor were the Solicitor-General's arguments, for in attacking Radical Joe Strecker, able Robert Houghwout Jackson was clearing the name of Frances Perkins, against whom rested impeachment charges based on her alleged mollycoddling of an even more famed alien radical...
...slimly among the bulb-nosed fighters, the potbellied bombers on the Army Air Corps Southern California airdrome. Major General Henry H. Arnold, greying Chief of the Air Corps, surveyed with particular approval her twin engines, Prestone-cooled V12 Allisons of 1,000 horsepower each, faired trimly into the metal wing. Well he knew that broad-beamed radial air-cooled motors, such as the big U. S. engine builders have brought to perfection, could not be used on such a ship without protruding in speed-killing humps on the wing's leading edges, that only the Allison (TIME...
...short, he opened his throttles to drag into the field. Without so much as a cough his left engine died. Plowing her wheels through a tree, the XP-38, with right engine throttled, slammed into the sand bunker of a golf course, came to a stop with her right wing torn off, her props hopelessly snaggled, her fuselage twisted (see cut). A passing motorist helped dazed Ben Kelsey from the wreck. He had been only slightly...
...yard run--Won by F. L. Porter, Leverett; second, W. C. Stephens, Winthrop; third, J. P. Lyford, Lowell; fourth, R. L. Wing, Lowell. Time--(1 minute 21 2-5 seconds...
...yard run--Won by R. L. wing, Lowell; second, C. L. Burwell, Eliot; third, H. Phippin, Kirkland; fourth, D. H. Wilson, Leverett. Time--(2 minutes 28 4-5 seconds...