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Word: wing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gene Lovett and Bart Kelley are still battling it our for the right wing job if Koufman is unable to answer the opening whistle. Ernie Sargeant was excused from the afternoon's chores, and Dick Pfister took his place on the A team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tough Dartmouth Tangle Looms As Harlowmen Lose Macdonald | 10/26/1939 | See Source »

When war broke out he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, and by 1917 was given command of the 41st Bombing Wing, based at Nancy. The Rhineland still remembers him for the punishment his Wing delivered to industrial and military targets in retaliation for Zeppelin and airplane raids on London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: 72-Hour War? | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...some ingenious welding techniques, feathered his nest comfortably from his welding patents. He is also a persistent and well-publicized ballyhooer of the "death ray" machine he claims to have invented (TIME, Aug. 10, 1936). Says he, this machine can kill cats and dogs, bring down pigeons on the wing, at ranges up to four miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Too Specific | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Langy Burwell, a Junior who only started big-time running last winter, breezed home only nine seconds behind Haley in second place. Penn Tuttle and Gene Clark, Jaakko's veteran long distance pair, finished in third and fourth places, trailed by diminutive Dick Wing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Harriers Smear Holy Cross, Taking Seven Out of First Ten Spots | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

...valuable practice which he missed wiped out the edge he had on Bart Kelley and Jim Devine for the right wing post. Koufman is expected back today, but right now neither Harlow nor end-tutor Fesler know who will answer the opening whistle Saturday. They wish they...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: JOE KOUFMAN, BURG AYRES FORCED TO MISS GRID DRILLS | 10/19/1939 | See Source »

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