Word: wings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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King Gustaf promptly called to the Premiership Herr C. G. Ekman, onetime blacksmith, leader of the People's Prohibition Party, the most ardently Dry wing of the old Liberal party...
...hours and 21 minutes a creature soared silently, with motionless wings, near Koenigsberg, Germany, one day last week. A thunder shower forced it to earth. It was the glider Goethen, holder of the previous world's record of 5 hr. 40 min. for motorless heavier-than-air craft with pilot and passenger.* It bore Ferdinand Schulz and a companion. Pilot Schulz's skill lies in utilizing air currents after leaving a lofty takeoff, as do eagles and other birds capable of staying aloft for hours with never a wing beat. He declares he is confident...
...vital calamity. Yet the Boston Evening Transcript editorially considers this demotion sufficient reason for uniting the city and its suburbs into a multiple municipality. The smoky sections of Somerville, the placid regions of Newton, the bustling parts of Cambridge, all would be taken under the maternal, Bostonian wing to swell the statistics of population...
...Cleveland, O.; subscriptions. George Lane Glasheen ocC. of Cambridge; James Rayner Harper '28 of Ottumwa, Ia.; Theodore Nelson Stensland '28 of Chicago; properties, Donald Kuinm Howard '28 of Edgewood Pa.; James Carey Thomas Flexner '29 of New York City: stage, Marvin Fiske Burt '28, of Freeport, Ill.; George Wing Dryer '27 of Birmingham, Ala.; electrical, Murry Nelson Fairbank '28 of Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y.; George Sutro Lowenstein '28 of Brookline; Francis Neilson Rich '29 of West Orange, N. J.; publicity, John Goldsmith Phillips '29 of Muskogee, Okla.; Richard Thomas Sherman '28 of Algona, la.; acting, Clarence Wesley Dupertuis...
...Barrow and the Pole. In Spitsbergen, the young Virginian, Lieut.-Commander Richard E. Byrd U. S. N., backed by Vincent Astor, Edsel Ford, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and others, rested after an historic 1,600-mile round-trip flight to the Pole, and laid out his next course-to wing westward from an advance base on north Greenland and search for unknown land where Explorers Peary and MacMillan each thought they descried it on different occasions years ago. Most formidable and promising of all, the dirigible Norge lurked in her Spitzbergen shed ready to nose forth and explore earth...