Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Princeton's play was hindered by the loss of three veteran players. Bill Barrett, Senior defenseman, was on the sick list along with Sophomore Harry Turner, left wing on the "Kid Line," and Doug Cochrane, center on the Junior line. Both Cochrane and Turner will be ready for action against Harvard, but it is doubtful if Barrett will make the trip...
Coach Vaughan has altered his line-up during the last two weeks. Jack Bissell, out since Christmas with an injured elbow, has again taken his post at center on the first line. Captain Bob Burke, formerly with Barrett on the defense, has been shifted to the right wing position where he played as a Freshman. Vaughan is hoping this combination will increase the team's scoring powers...
Budge Miller has been shifted from his right wing post on the second line to defense, where he teams with Harry Farker. The cage assignment has been handled by both Nicoll and Coleman; Coleman played the entire Yale game, but during the Clarkson encounter her trouble in the first frame and was relieved by Nicoll...
...theory that if they could be separated in midair it would "solve the fundamental problem of launching long-range aeroplanes with a full load . . . eliminate the take-off altogether." In 1916, an air force lieutenant named Day crudely accomplished this by lifting a Bullet scout plane from the wing of a Porte flying boat. Since then blue-eyed, middle-aged Major Robert Hobart Mayo, Cambridge graduate, airplane designer, and technical adviser to Imperial Airways, has worked on the idea. Backed by Imperial Airways, the British Government and Short Bros., famed manufacturer of Britain's famed Empire flying boats, Major...
...pickaback plane, or "Short-Mayo Composite Aircraft," consists of two seaplanes-a small, swift, long-range ship securely locked on the back of a big short-range "mother" flying boat. The top plane, named Mercury, has a 73-ft. wing span, weighs 20,000 lb. loaded, is powered with four air-cooled 16-cyl. Napier-Half ord 340-h.p. engines, carries a total payload of 1,000 lb. (but no passengers) 3,500 mi. at 160 m.p.h. Its mother beneath, Maia, weighs 40,000 lb. loaded, has four big 9-cyl., 960-h.p. Bristol "Pegasus" radial engines, a wing span...