Word: winging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they must be added to,--whether or not by such a method as that suggested above is no matter--if the coming generations are to be educated by an acceptable type of man, if a teacher is to live on as high an economic plane as a white wing...
...newly appointed radio commission; they were beginning their work without salaries, offices, desks or even wastebaskets, for Congress had failed to appropriate money to carry on their work. The President condoled with them, thanked them for their public spirit. Comforted, they returned to an office in an empty wing of the Department of Commerce building, sat down on borrowed chairs. From the Department of Agriculture they borrowed one Sam Pickard to act as their secretary, from the Department of Justice borrowed attorneys, from the War, Navy and Commerce Departments borrowed clerks. They got desks and typewriters by begging here...
Senator William Henry King of Utah: "My son Paul is an intrepid flyer. Last week as he piloted his plane, a Department of Commerce type, over Boiling Field on his way to Dayton, Ohio, he decided to land. The right wing caught in the grass and spun the plane around; out of the wreckage they dug my son Paul, unhurt...
...right wing "Social Democrat...
...Left wing "Social Democrats...