Word: wings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual convention next fall. Friends of Mr. Woll pointed out that he was youthful, that of all the candidates he had been closest to Samuel Gompers. It was known, further, that Mr. Gompers had wished that Mr. Woll should succeed him, although the latter belongs rather to the radical wing of the organization. William Green was the candidate of the mine workers and the carpenters, the two largest groups of the Federation. He belongs rather to the conservative wing, although not to the extreme conservatives...
...communist propaganda and the extreme radicals in the labor movement. He has leaned to the progressive group in promotion of a Workers' Educational Bureau and in support of Government ownership of railways. But, on the whole, he is in the middle ground with a leaning toward the conservative wing...
This attitude split the abolitionists into two groups-a Garrison or "moral" wing and a political wing which supported the Constitution. But, when the Civil War came, Garrison supported the Government. He saw at 60 the achievement of the cause which he had championed since he was 24. In 1867, he gave up publishing the Liberator but lived on in an honored old age till 1879. Such was the father of Mrs. Villard...
...were tested primarily as to the integrity of these organs and their function. It was learned, however, that when the aviators flew above the clouds and finally came out, they might find themselves flying partially on one side so that they slipped readily into what was known as a "wing slip," and fatal accidents resulted from such causes. In other words, when the aviator was unable to orient himself in relation to the horizon by use of the visual sense, he could not depend for maintaining his balance on the knowledge coming to his brain from the semicircular canals alone...
...first hour of yesterday's practice session consisted of shooting goals and passing the puck by several forward combinations that were sent against two backs and a goal guard. The combination of W. G. Saltonstall at left wing, J. P. Chase at center, and George Crawford at right wing was among the best...