Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...team operates from a double wing formation, and lines up on the offensive with the unbalanced line carried to its logical conclusion. Only one man flanks the short side of center, with five chargers on the strong side. They employ little razzle-dazzle tactics, relying chiefly on straight running plays and "Wildcat" determination...
...last week Washington knew that the New Deal was suddenly feeling a new pressure, not primarily from big business but from all those who fear a business recession-a force so general as almost to amount to a pressure of circumstances. For even the left wing of the New Deal was alarmed by the possibility of a slump and Franklin Roosevelt's attitude appeared to reflect a tacit change. Likewise modified was the attitude of many a business man who has groaned because of unhealthy Federal deficits. The President last week reiterated his intention of balancing the budget...
...occasion for riots. We ultimately lost the flags, but the preaching continued as ever in support of Him who helpeth them to right that suffer wrong." Once the centre of violent Anglican controversy, Father Noel today is an accepted church institution, leader of a small but articulate left-wing group called "The Church Militant" and, in politics, tending toward Trotskyite communism. To non-religious communists, Father Noel's views are puzzling. Once a Russian addressed a meeting of Noelites, thought he was speaking their theological language, was aghast to find that they disagreed violently with everything he said, particularly...
Typical of France's oversea air condition is the 40-ton French sesquiplane, Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris, built in 1934 and now an old-fashioned monster. She has six 12-cylinder, 890 h.p., water-cooled Hispano-Suiza engines, has 161-ft. wing spread-wider than any U. S. air-plane-but she cruises at only 142 m.p.h. Two years ago, she was anchored in Pensacola Bay while her crew was ashore, capsized during a squall, was salvaged with difficulty, flown home in chagrin...
Army uses the single-wing system and depends more on power and passes than on deception...