Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conjecture: his speed may have passed the dreaded limit of "compressibility" when the air streams pass the wing or control surfaces at the speed of sound (TIME, Sept. 23). A "standing sound wave" may have formed, clung like a yammering banshee, and torn the plane to shreds. Perhaps Captain De Havilland crossed that sonic threshold only to discover, in Hamlet's soaring words...
...forward line will not lack replacements, however, being two deep at every position. For his right wing MacDonald will start Bob Smith or Jose del Rio with Gaston Azcarraga opening at the inside right slot. Last week's high scorer, Phil Potter, will again be at center forward, with his running mate, captain Carlos Blanco at left inside. Either Bill Dawson or Arnold Corrigan will be on the left wing...
...Tufts team, not unlike its big brother Varsity version, is something of an unknown quantity, but it is expected that their attack will run from single and double-wing formations in a preview of what the Crimson Varsity can expect tomorrow...
...third quarter saw the Yardling forwards missing shot after shot at the prep school goal mouth, but they finally scored with two minutes to go in the period when Francis Chen, at the center forward position, tapped in a pass from his right wing. The fourth period was a replay of the third this time with Pete Morgan scoring for the Crimson just as the clock...
Private Fight. Behind the strike was a labor politicians' feud. Pontiac's Mayor Arthur J. Law is a onetime president of the U.A.W.'s Fisher Body Local 596 and a member of the U.A.W.'s Reuther wing. In the last city election he beat one Sidney Christmas, pint-sized vice-president of the Pontiac Union Council and an extreme left-winger. Egged on by Christmas, all 16 unions in the council threatened last week to call a sympathy strike Oct. 2 if the city workers' demands...