Word: winging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flock of strange, crested birds flapped jerkily, like tired oarsmen, westward from England to the Newfoundland Coast. They dropped to land, some to die immediately -bundles of white, bay and bottle green feathers. Some capered crazily on their spindly legs, soon to die with broad, round wing outstretched in a last flap and necks outstretched - like architectural ornaments. A few lived. They were lapwings, whose eggs ("plovers' eggs") British gourmets find piquant. Only in isolated cases had lapwings before been seen in North America. They are natives of northern Europe and Asia and, ornithologists believed, lacked hardihood or strength...
...scoring is led by F. R. G. Giddens '29, playing at right wing, who has nine tallies to his credit. Captain J. P. Chase '28, John Tudor '28, playing center and left wing respectively, are his close seconds with seven goals each. W. T. Wetmore '30, who plays at left wing and was Captain of last year's Freshman sextet has netted the puck four times...
...strokes, trembling. Demipest sat down at a table, drew towards him the blue book, fat and loathsome in its emptiness. A completely depitilated proctor advances, passing out examination questions. The indifference of a god. O misery, misery! Question One: cold death, like the shadow of a dark angel's wing, crawls rapidly over the stillness. The fountain-pen, possessed of demons, bounces obscenely on the floor...
...sailors' story" is fact; the battleship Texas was ashore here from Sept. 28 to Oct. 1, 1917, according to official records. ALBERT E. WING...
Where did he go? Why was he banished? The last question must be answered first. Lev Davidovich Trotsky and 50 more prominent Soviet politicians were banished, last week, because they had attempted to lead an opposition wing in the Russian Communist party, a party which brooks no opposition. By command of Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin, the oppositionists had been cast out of the party (TIME, Dec. 26) and expelled from the Soviet Parliament (TIME, Jan. 16). Last week the outcasts were sorted out into grades, according to truculence, and then banished to regions of exile carefully chosen to fit their...