Word: winging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ladies of the Senate, luncheon club of the wives, sisters and daughters of the graybeards of the north wing of the Capitol, face a delicate question. According to the constitution of the organization, "the wife of the Vice President" shall be its President. Mrs. Coolidge has retired, necessarily. The question now arises whether Miss Anna Cummins, elder sister of Senator Cummins (who is a widower) shall be President of the body or whether Mrs. Kendrick, Vice President of the organization, wife of the Democratic Senator from Wyoming, shall succeed to the office. Mrs. Coolidge recently had the Ladies...
...Sperry, famed inventor of many gyroscopic appliances. Scarcely 30, he had achieved a reputation almost equal to that of his father. In 1914 in France, he won a 10,000-franc prize, flying a plane so stabilized by the Sperry automatic pilot, that a mechanic walked out on the wing while the pilot left the machine entirely to its own control. The first man to loop a hydroplane, the first to instal a radio set in an airplane, he was carving a brilliant career as a designer and builder of aircraft. His Messenger (a tiny single seater) came into most...
...only score of the first period came a little more than a minute from the end, when the Canadian left wing and center broke through the Crimson forward line in their own territory. McNaughton dribbled the puck along his lane but was soon boxed in by the Harvard defence. He passed over sharply to Glennie, who drove it in before the Crimson defence could spoil his shot...
...many who feel that they are rightfully within the fold of the church--and yet who feel that intellectual honesty forbids them to subscribe to doctrine which is to them antiquated and erroneous. The invariable answer from the Fundamentalists--(Episcopalians, Presbyterians, and many others; for there is a conservative wing in nearly every denomination)--is that there is room for such liberal teaching outside the church, but none within its doors...
...teams which the Crimson will face next fall have announced their new captains as follows: Virginia, Arnold, back; Holy Cross, Mahaney, end; Dartmouth, Bjorkman, end; Princeton, Stout, end; Brown, Sheldon, end; Yale, Lovejoy, center. Among the University's opponents, end is clearly the favorite position, four wing-men having been chosen to lead their teams in the Stadium. Other colleges have shown different preferences throughout the East, with tackle the foremost position, from which ten leaders have been chosen for next year...