Word: winging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvey C. Mummert, an engineer of the Curtiss Aeroplane Co. a Garden City, L. I., has built an even smaller machine which has proved entirely successful. The Mummert monoplane is equipped with an ordinary two cylinder motorcycle engine, weighs only 500 pounds with fuel and pilot and has a wing spread of only 20 feet. With its gas tank filled with 19 gallons of fuel, it can cruise for 1,200 miles. The maximum speed is 80 miles per hour. Captain Brooke L. Pierson, an Air Mai pilot, has put the plane through a number of minor " stunts...
...Barling Bomber is being assembled by the Army Air Service at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio. It has a wing spread of 120 feet, a height of 28 feet, measures 65 feet from nose to tail. Fully loaded, the bomber weighs 20 tons, is propelled by six Liberty motors with a total of 2,400 horsepower, dwarfs every airplane built up to this day. To keep the dimensions within reasonable limits, three wings are used to give the enormous carrying capacity required. The plane represents an investment of half-a-million dollars, and since the first flight of a machine...
George V: " Accompanied by my wife, I paid a visit to a new maternity wing of Queen Mary's Hospital in the poor district of London. When I stooped to rock the cradle of one of my tiniest subjects, the nurse in charge hurried up to me and said politely: 'We don't rock babies nowadays, Your Majesty.' She explained that it had been found that rocking made babies...
William Allen White: "It is more fun than a box of monkeys?this satire, this tragedy, this essay in morals, this comedy of manners, together with a full and complete political program for the Left Wing of the Philosophical Anarchists. Men Like Gods is q good book for a bad time in the world...
...Bobby' to give me a 'leg up.' This he did. But no sooner had I got inside than I leapt out again−or I had invaded the room of one of the sleeping female servants. . . Eventually I climbed to the roof of a one-story wing of the palace, smashed a skylight, dropped through." Jim Johnson, Mayor of Shelby, Mont.: "The Common Council, in session, voted unanimously to invite the Prince of Wales to the Dempsey-Gibbons fight and the rodeo, July 4. Said the telegram in part: 'These are events of red-blooded sport...