Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson will be without the services of Bob McVey and first line wing Terry O'Malley, but Coach Cooney Weiland is confident that his team can avenge its 5-4 overtime upset by the Friarn Dec. 13. O'Malley received a Jung` injury in the Dalhonsie game during vacation and will not be able to play until Saturday at the earliest...
Providence has a outstanding first line, led by wing Bob Reall, who in captain of the Friar sextet for the third straight year. Coach Dick Rondeau remarked recently that "unless the Reall-Ed Monahan-Red German combination is working well, we don't go anywhere." German scored three goals against the Crimson, including the tying and winning ones, in the 5-4 game...
...enormous thrust. Most of them are freaks that will never fly. Last week designers were studying a novel wingless aircraft that is not in the same class. Its originator, Dr. Alexander Martin Lippisch, 61, a top German airplane designer in World War II, was largely responsible for the delta wing and Nazi Germany's ME-163 rocket plane. His new "aerodyne," however odd-looking, cannot be laughed off as a crazy inventor's dream...
...Marvels. This is what the aerodyne does, says Dr. Lippisch. He thinks that the design will be more suited to large aircraft than small. So far, his aerodyne is strictly experimental, and he does not want to predict when it will come into flying use. "I developed the delta-wing aircraft back in the '30s," he says, "and look at the time it took to develop them. I ran into the same trouble that I am running into now. Everyone marvels, but the development away from conventional, conservative systems is hard to get started...
...square! Lorenzo Fuller [an alternate Sportin' Life] decided to go scalp the piano. Ned Wright [Robbins] felt the spirit striving and took everybody to the sunny side of the street . . . One of the Russian cats got the spirit and did a buck and wing routine that flipped everybody's wig. Everything was copacabana, just like the tree-all root...