Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clear the bombways"-"Give 'em hell, doc" -"Here we go." All this is over interphone; . . . there is no talk between ships but you know how the others feel. . . . And then you're in it. Black puffs of smoke begin breaking in front of the nose, off the wing, right overhead. They break suddenly in clusters and hang in the air like tiny clouds. You are twisting and turning, diving, climbing-anything to keep those clusters from coming too close. The sky is full of them and there doesn't seem to be room to fly through. They...
...story, belatedly revealed that Poletti had not consulted the Parole Board. Things began to pop. The austere, thorough New York Times reported: "As one of his last acts in office, it was learned yesterday, Governor Poletti commuted the sentence of Alexander Hoffman, C.I.O. union official and Left Wing sympathizer, who was sentenced on Dec. 4, 1940, to four to eight years in Sing Sing for attempted arson . . . and conspiracy...
...Civil Aeronautics Administration.* Use of the metal beryllium he called a "tantalizing dream" because it would reduce the weight of a Douglas DC-3 (now 13 tons) by more than a ton. Glass fabric, bonded by plastics, seems to him an "almost Utopian material" for plane structures and wing covering. But he thinks that aluminum alloys will remain the leader for some time, with competition from stainless steel where corrosion is involved...
...hopes for the other clubs in the League are not measurably brightened by this news, for earlier in the season, Jack Riley, originally starting wing, left for the Army, and his shoes were more than capably filled by his brother Bill. Dartmouth's Coach Jermiah can be expected to fill Rondeau's spot with another top-flight puckster until Rondeau's return...
...Morning Chapel Service for new students. Appleton Chapel (east wing of Memorial Church...