Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hirsch, the 21-year-old Jew arrested last December for plotting to kill "a high German official"-subsequently believed to be Jew-baiter Julius Streicher-with a bomb (TIME, May 3). Hirsch's family lives in Czechoslovakia, but U. S. diplomats in Berlin had taken him under their wing because his grandfather was a naturalized U. S. citizen. U. S. newspapers whooped for his life, but Hirsch, throughout his imprisonment, admitted he was guilty. He did not deny it in the letter he wrote to his family day before his death...
With words of praise and affection, a bronze bust was unveiled during the commencement of Alabama's Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute last week, disclosing the image of an aged Negro with benign eyes and wrinkled brow, wearing an old-fashioned coat, a wing collar and flowing tie. It was a likeness of George Washington Carver, and its presentation climaxed his long, remarkable, well-publicized career. Made by Sculptor Steffen Wolfgang George Thomas of Atlanta, it was paid for by George Washington Carver's admirers, black and white, mostly in $1 subscriptions...
...Swift; Terry D. Thompson; Harold M. Thurston, Jr.; Donald P. Todd; Leverett S. Tuckerman, Jr.; William P. Tuttle, Jr.; David N. Ulrich; Victor C. Vaughan, 3d.; Walter I. Wardwell; John L. Washburn; Louis B. Wehle, Jr.; B. Sheffield West; Samuel W. White, Jr.; Arthur S. Williams; Richard L. Wing; and Morton G. Wurtele...
...Chateau de Cande and explained apologetically that he had. been . forced not only to forbid any member of the Royal Family attending the wedding, but any British subject holding a Crown commission, which meant that such a harmless citizen as the former pilot of Edward's private plane. Wing Commander Edward ("Mouse") Fielden, was forced to refuse an invitation together with more potent officers and diplomats who were among the Duke of Windsor's friends...
Hollay, whose appointment is a three year one, is a specialist in wing theory and has served as consultant engineer to the Institute's Astrophysics Council on problems connected with the design of the new 200-inch telescope dome. Vose's term will run one year...