Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House was due for its first remodeling since President Coolidge fire-proofed it in 1927. The architect, Lorenzo S. Winslow, unrolled his drawing of a new, L-shaped addition designed to flow so subtly from the West Wing that it would leave the mansion's historic Georgian lines practically undisturbed...
Other improvements planned for the White House: a new $50,000 heating system; a presidential museum (for the knickknacks of ex-Presidents) ; a $100,000 landscaping job on the White House grounds; a semicircular staircase of marble and iron grillwork for the East Wing...
Eaton, who has just returned from duty with the Ninth Air Force, has lost none of the experience gained as a member of the Freshman team in 1941. He assisted Ayres in the second score of the match and sparkled throughout on the first line in left wing position...
Andrews, Minot, and Forte, who have been playing as a unit since the beginning of the year, showed up as a threatening Right Wing-Centre-Left Wing combo to all comers and played no mean part in keeping the Purple scoreless until the last five minutes of the second period...
Last week, with Marse Henry dead 24 years, his Courier-Journal was still not exempt from accusations: it was (with its afternoon sister paper, the Times) a monopoly; it was left-wing Democratic, as Marse Henry, no left-winger, never dreamed it would be. But the paper still had what Watterson had given it: the strongest, though not the most popular, journalistic voice in the South...