Word: wings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally, in a garage in Omaha, he smiled at disappointments as he built the Bellanca VIII-a monoplane of large wing surface, with struts, fuselage and tail all designed to give great lifting power. People thought the plane a little queer. Nevertheless, it won 13 efficiency prizes, aided by a little Anzani motor which Mr. Bellanca purchased from a junkman for $75. As everyone now knows, the famed Columbia is a Bellanca VIII equipped with a Wright Whirlwind motor...
...fragrance of a 5-&-10c perfume counter, may get a composite impression of all by contemplating this creation about a U. S. hero who fights off the Grand Duke Sergeivitch and all his villainous fellows in order that the creamy, soft heroine may snuggle under his bold wing...
...contrast is clear with one added point. As in America, so at Oxford and Cambridge, athletics are countenanced by the authorities, but they are not, as in America, either given largely to the direction of sporting interests or taken officially under the wing of the authorities. They are supervised much as the individual students are supervised, namely, by men interested in them. The faculty members interested are men who in their other capacities live among the students eat with them, and are friends and advisers...
...would undoubtedly be assigned space on the section conducted by Conductor Kennedy or Conductor Hendrix, the section called "first" only for convenience, perhaps, but invariably attended at one end of the run or other by George Joseph Warner, a gentleman of 63 who looks, in his bat tie and wing collar, precisely like a modest bank president seen through brown-smoked glasses. George Joseph Warner is the road's crack and senior porter. His section is always the "first...
...development of perfect tone. From the lecture room his listeners followed him to the temporary rooms of the Museums of the Peaceful Arts. There they saw his collection of 711 Chinese flutes of jades and ivory flutes carved from human bones, of glass, of an eagle's wing, a ram's horn...