Word: wings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lifted out of the plane. He was almost unconscious, gulping for air. Before the take-off he had been fitted and jammed into his compartment, which was filled with extra fuel cans. Throughout the flight, he had had to pump gasoline from the cans into the wing tanks...
...severe blow to Harvard's chances of downing the Dartmouth sextet tomorrow night came with the announcement that John Tudor '29, captain and crack left wing of the University hockey team, will be hors de combat for at least two weeks...
...Garrison, who had been holding down the first string center post until he broke his wrist in the New Year's eve Toronto clash, will most probably resume his old berth, while E. T. Putnam '30, who shoots from the port side, may well be shifted from center to wing in order to fill the place left vacant owing to Tudor's injury...
Harry Payne Whitney, financier, sportsman, offered last week to give $750,000 to the American Museum of Natural History for the construction of a new wing to house collections of bird life, if and when New York City contributes an equal...
...their weight-equivalent in freight. Boeing and Curtiss have big planes in trial. Larger are the Keystone Patrician and the Chapman Airliner, both new developments. Each can carry 20 passengers and each shortly will make a transcontinental demonstration tour. Largest of course is Consolidated's new Admiral. Its wing spread is 100 feet, its body 60 feet long. Its twin motors carried it last week at more than 100 miles per hour. Waiting as a reward for the Navy tests was a commercial order for Consolidated...