Word: winging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feel of his plane that he is traveling in a straight line parallel with the ground and is ready to land gracefully. An inexperienced pilot often fails to detect a wind that is causing his plane to drift sideways. This may account for a wrecked landing-gear, a crumpled wing. This is why planes, like pitching ducks, land directly into the wind whenever possible. A perfect landing is when the two wheels and the tail-skid touch the ground in unison...
Speaking in behalf of the undergraduate members, C. G. T. Lundell '27 expressed appreciation of the service rendered by Mr. Tibbetts, and at the close of his address presented the resigning secretary with a wing chair, the gift of the undergraduates in the Cabinet. G. G. Wilson '25 spoke for the graduates, and reiterated Lundell's sentiments...
That there are enough such gusts and wing-beats and enough effortless soaring to make the poem great despite its faltering, goes without saying. For the philosophical content it is enough to quote...
Believing in proportion in all things, he has discovered under the protecting wing of Symphony Hall, a tiny store whose dimensions are decidedly unfriendly to fat men, whom nobody loves, but which are made just right for Otto. Into this nook Otto is planning to move bag and baggage, books and bookshelves...
Lately she undertook the responsibilities of matrimony and motherhood. She wrote Falling Seeds in a deserted monastery outside of Florence (Italy), in an opposite wing of which, her husband, Frank Michler Chapman Jr., able Princeton ('23) baritone (son of the author of What Bird Is That? and many another ornithological classic), was exercising for grand opera...