Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia, a crowd of 48,000 watched once-beaten Michigan put Pennsylvania over a barrel, 41-to-19, with reverses, spinners and lateral forward passes -spun from both T and single-wing formations...
Central offices of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, long packed into University's North Wing, third floor, will expand to meet present needs in Farlow House, where they will be joined by the Foreign Student Office and the Appointment Office...
...Buck of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will remain in his present offices on the second floor, south, as will Dean Hanford and the assistant deans of the College, with office rearrangement for the latter group on the first floor. Dean Buck's assistants will take the south wing of the third floor, from which Dean Leighton and the assistant Freshman deans will be moved to the first floor, north...
Collisions between planes and birds are reported by U.S. airline pilots about twice a week. They can disable wing tips, dent the fuselage, foul the motor-but the chief danger is a windshield break. Last month a DC-3 almost crashed in Iowa when a duck came through the windshield in an explosion of glass and feathers and knocked out the pilot (the copilot saved the plane...
...Sense of Altitude. Another Curtin story suggests that birds, like planes, may be downed by wing-icing: a pilot reported that one night, after he had been forced down at Portage, Wis., hundreds of mallard ducks also landed in the streets of the town, their wings heavily ice-coated...