Word: winging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contributed scientific knowledge to the world." He particularized: experience with radio and solar compasses, data on flying conditions in frigid air and over snow-covered terrain. He warmly complimented the men under him on their courage and discipline, citing Mechanic Bennett's heroism in climbing out on a wing to prevent a cold-clogged oil tank from bursting, the joint feat of changing three 900-lb. Liberty motors with improvised equipment, and the readiness of all the men to fly over Ellesmere Land "where a forced landing meant 'curtains' [i. e. dropped curtains-Death]." Pilot Earl Reber...
...Wing Positions Badly Fortified
...weak point of the team is without doubt the wing positions. The five ends who were used in 1924 all graduated last June, and men are being shifted from other positions to meet this difficulty. Moeser, fullback of the 1928 combination and Jeffers, a Senior, are at present Roper's choices. Bartell, who won his letter at center last fall, and Lea, from the Freshman eleven, are giving them a hard fight...
...lady dainty as a bird for all her bulk, she sometimes wrote in a Japanese measure, light as a moth's wing, of love's pain. She contrived a grotesque, flitting tragedy from the conceited dreams of a scrimp-shanked philosopher, starving himself dead in the dusty ratruns of a cathedral spire...
...major sports are now quartered on the second floor; the track teams, both University and Freshman are again in the east wing of the building, while the football teams, University, Seconds, and Freshman, share the rest of the second floor with the doctor's office, the new X-ray room, and the rubbing room. The last three are centrally located at the head of the main stairway...