Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...where it counted most. He had helped write the Administration's basic civil rights program. He had gone down the line for everything else in Harry Truman's Fair Deal. For a good 20 years he had been the outspoken sparkplug of scores of liberal and left-wing groups...
...Valpey's first disciples started spreading the single wing gospel yesterday. Chip Gannon and Nick Rodis, named last week as head coach and line coach at American International College in Springfield, opened spring practice there yesterday...
What entertaining they do is largely confined to aviation people or representatives of nations with which Pan American has air agreements. Adaptable Mrs. Trippe has had to learn to chat intelligently about everything from "chosen instruments" to wing loadings. She learned from the start the importance of the air. On their wedding day in June 1928, while friends gathered on Long Island for the ceremony, Trippe put in a brisk morning's work at the office. He barely made it on time. Said a friend: "Juan's idea of relaxing is to sit up till 2 a.m. talking...
Gannon and Rodis will install the Michigan single wing at American. They intend to hold a short spring practice there to case its adoption...
Dean Bender's statement is a welcome one, especially in contrast to his action in the New Student case last spring. At that time, the Dean's Office refused to grant recognition as a Harvard publication to the left-wing magazine principally on the grounds that a high percentage of its contents was written by non-Harvard authors. Yet literary magazines have often printed issues written entirely outside Harvard without protest from University Hall. Thus the political content of The New Student seemed to be the key factor in determining University Hall's stand against the magazine...