Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feet, under a 5,000-foot ceiling, the roar of the 314's four big engines suddenly died away to a mutter. The Clipper went into a glide. Almost on the water, Rod Sullivan unaccountably wheeled into a turn, brushed a wing on the water. This was his first bad crash in 101 transatlantic flights...
Details. Hess wears civilian clothes, lives in a room 20 ft. by 20 ft. in a wing of a former lunatic asylum. Outside his windows is a spacious lawn and flower beds along the building; they are bright now with the season's last roses and first asters and chrysanthemums. Oaks, elms and beeches surround the grounds. The view reaches to lavender hills...
Progressives: informal learning through active experience; the development of initiative, responsibility and the mastery of basic subjects by encouraging pupils as individuals, with teachers acting more as guides than as formal instructors. Less familiar is Essentialism, although hosts of U.S. citizens lean toward the Essentialists. This educational wing would give pupils systematic training in traditional subjects; discipline is stressed and informal learning strictly subordinated...
This flight had seemed no different from any other. The huge Liberator thundered down the concrete runway. The nose lifted, and she gracefully soared a couple of hundred feet. She swung sidewards, on one wing, and onlookers thought it was a bank; but suddenly there was a roar...
...been lining up most of the week, the Varsity backfield includes Swede Anderson of last year's eleven at blocking back; Ray Eder, who starred in last year's spring practice, at wing; Paul Garrity, former Jayvee fullback, at tailback now; and Paul Perkins, Varsity sub in '42, who has the nod over Minnesota Joe Lauterback at the 3 spot...