Word: wings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this point Professor Trowbridge had several pictures thrown on the screen. The first was of several coins which had been in his pocket-book which had been put in a wooden box that had been surrounded by a pasteboard box. The next picture was of a turkey's wing which showed the bones and a bullet which had been shot into it. The third picture was again of a turkey's wing with three shots in it, and a ring taken by a to and fro current which is the professor's way of finding out the distance...
...Broken Wing of the South Wind. A Babylonian Myth written in the 15th century B. C., recently found in the ruins of an Egyptian library of the same date...
Engin. 16d, 16f L. S. S., Wing...
Second tenors-H. M. Wing, L. E. Ware, F. A. Turner, M. S. Savage...
After first comparing the skeletons and wings of birds with those of insects and bats, and tracing the different stages of development from the simplest species of insects, Professor Morgan gave a detailed explanation of a bird's wing. He showed that the wing muscles and the heavy bones are at the bottom of the body and the lungs and air-cells at the top, so that the bird, ballasted as it is, naturally rights itself when in air. The feathers of the wing are divided into primary and secondary feathers. In all swift flying birds the primary or outer...