Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unfamiliar birds. He grabbed them, lugged them to the director, demanded an explanation. They had been sitting there for 22 years because nobody had quite got around to throwing them away. He was told they were probably some kind of domestic peacock. Dr. Chapin knew better. The moth-eaten wing-feathers matched the one he had been saving for 23 years. He wrote his museum for permission to go to Africa for two months for the purpose of confirming his long standing suspicion that there was a relative of the peacock living in Africa...
...them, to sit fascinated watching-and never to make a murderous move toward a shotgun. For the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, atop Blue Mountain, is the only spot in the world where birds of prey are protected, and perhaps the world's best place to see them on the wing...
Matthew Woll, Samuel Gompers' short, swart "Crown Prince," a high-tariff Republican who wears wing collars and is as conservative as a life insurance company president, which he is (Union Labor Life). Luxemburg-born, he is more sophisticated than his A. F. of L. colleagues, dislikes Bill Green almost as much as he does John Lewis...
...Faster than anyone could think three things happened. The Japanese power-dived upon Nanking, Chinese anti-aircraft guns on the hills around the capital opened up, and reserve Chinese pursuit fighters took the air, climbing to tear like clawing condors at the Japanese bombers' flanks. The Japanese wing leader signaled with a puff of smoke, all his following bombers let go their loads and zoomed upward to get away, but by a freak four Japanese craft were downed at the same instant, belched smoke and plunged earthward like meteors, streaming flames...
...forward line, Jim Wood, left wing sharpshooter, h as gone by graduation. Howard Mendel, a Sophomore with a bullet shot, may get Wood's position. If not, he will probably be tried at center. In either case, he is flanked by Tom Motley, a great playmaker, ineligible last season. On the other side of the forward line things are kind of undecided. There's a lot of material hanging around, and some where Carr ought to pick up a couple of top notch players...