Word: wings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...from that altitude you spiral down to 600 metres where you stop the spiral and descend to the ground in normal and wide turns. He commenced his spirals normally, but, when at 600 metres, he did not stop. At about this altitude the machine "slipped off on a wing" (side-slipped) and then went into a nose drive. It struck the ground in this attitude. Two possible reasons for the accident are improper manipulation of controls, (using too much rudder) or illness. Bill may have become dizzy due to the quick turns of the machine and have lost entire control...
...part are not honest fighters for an ideal, but German agents, who wish to stop the war and incourage a social revolution." Naturally, I made no such sweeping and unjustifiable indictment. But I did use substantially the words cited above with regard to some leaders of the most radical wing of the Russian Socialists, the Bolsheviki. This statement was based on the copious documentary evidence published by the Russian Government last July, evidence which, I think, has sufficiently opened the eyes of unprejudiced men as to the real character and the pernicious activities of many of the Bolshevik leaders...
...when the easterly wing was added Gore Hall contained the Harvard Library until 1913. And being then long outgrown was torn down to make place for the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library. This tablet has been placed here by the University Library Committee...
Announcement was made of the following awards: Susan Anthony Potter Prize in Comparative Literature to J. B. Munn '12; Susan Anthony Potter Prize in Spanish Literature to F. B. Wing '17; Sargent Prize to J. D. Davis '20; Sales Prize to J. J. Brooks...
...great city looks before the subways to Boston are running, and the Cambridge police force, taking up the burden the stars have left off, resumes his diurnal beat. Seven hundred men have seen with Pippa the morning at seven; although the lark and the snail are missing from the wing and the thorn...