Word: winging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent action of England's Labor Party in rejecting the Communists has definitely allayed prevalent fears that the left wing of the Labor Party would gain control. British newspapers for some time past have been stressing the possibility of a very radical Labor Party. The fact that many British business men have transferred considerable amounts of their available funds of investment in America is sufficient evidence that many people feared the radical laborites would take over the leadership of the Labor organization...
...most radical shift which the first line has had took place yesterday when Adie was definitely converted from a center into an end. Adie has been given several trials on the wing, but it was not known that he would be stationed there permanently until yesterday. His shift will make Macomber's performance at center almost certain...
...Boiling Field, Washington. A delegation carrying an invitation climbed out and proceeded to the White House. Mr. Coolidge received them. The spokesman, Capt. Edward V. ("Eddie"), Rickenbacker, made a little "speech and presented the strange invitation-an airplane with a wingspread of about two feet, and on its upper wing the words...
...operator picked up a message which stated that at a conference of pilots on the U. S. S. Langley it was unanimously agreed that the PN9 No. 1 and its crew were lost. "That made me angry," said he. Commander Rodgers fashioned a sail out of a piece of wing-fabric. "He kidded us that he'd sail right up to the dock...
...Ardmore, Okla., one Ethel Hindman, ranchman's daughter, at the request of cinema photographers and before the marveling gaze of 4,000 yokels admitted at 25 cents each, stood up on the wing of an airplane, leaped into space, curved down 40 feet to cleave the waters of the city lake. The force of the impact split her bathing...