Word: winging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...site of the cathedral is Washington's highest point, Mount Saint Albans, a thickly wooded hill 400 feet above the Potomac and northwest of the city. Here already functions some appanages of the cathedral Mount Saint Albans National Cathedral School for Boys, National Cathedral School for Girls, a wing of the library, (containing 20,000 books), the college of preachers (for which last week's contributions will build a permanent home). Contemplated are a hall of assembly, a hostel, to accommodate visiting clergymen and scholars, an administration building, a chapter house, and a clergy village for retired rectors...
...recording of the names of Rhodes Scholars deemed worthy of commemoration by reason of their performance of public duty. Rhodes Scholars who died in the World War will be the first group so memorialized. Lord Milner, one of the original Trustees, will have a particular memorial. The east wing is to contain the house and office of the Oxford Secretary of the Trust...
...shifted to Team A early in the week and have been working out in their present positions for the last few days. The only change that has been made from the order followed in the practice sessions this week is the shift of French to right instead of left wing back on the defense. David Guarnaccia '29 will carry out the defense fullback assignment this afternoon
Eyewitnesses related that the machine began falling from a great height and that at a height of about 70 feet a wing fell off and the great machine hurtled, dead weight, to the ground, half burying itself. The corpses were mangled almost beyond recognition. All, save Seiler, were instantly killed, the mechanic merely showing bare signs of life and passing away without regaining consciousness. The accident was ascribed to an airpocket dashing the ma-chine to the ground, a hardly feasible premise; another guess was that the pilot had died suddenly of heart disease. A rumor of political assassination...
...onto the greensward at the kick-off. Six letter men, veterans of former campaigns, will be in the Crimson array, but three of the five remaining players on the team have never seen service in a University game W. W. Lord '28, who will fill in at the right wing of the Harvard line, will taste his first University action, while in the backfield D. J. Kelley '28, who will guide the team from the quarterback's post, and S. C. Burns '29, at fullback...