Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next day the country had cause to blink again. A Northrop YB-49 eight-jet Flying Wing-a weird, batlike sky monster which is almost twice as heavy as the Stratojet-flew from Muroc, Calif, to Andrews Air Force Base in four hours and 25 minutes. Average for 2,259 miles: 511.2 miles an hour...
...been interested in Amsterdam, reported The Netherlands' Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft, general secretary to the World Council, but not all of the press comment had been favorable. Some papers, said Dr. Visser 't Hooft, had criticized Amsterdam severely for being "a bunch of left-wing socialists talking like regular revolutionaries." Others had sneered at "those bourgeois who will never learn that the world is moving on." The Soviet press had attacked the council as "a new powerful center of a political church." Commented Visser 't Hooft: "They don't take our spiritual efforts...
First line wing Bill Garrity, who aggravated his broken toe in the Dartmouth game, will be resting tonight and Charley Coulter will fill his left wing position. Elsewhere the varsity lineup remains the same as Wednesday except that Johnny Chase and not Bill Yetman will make the trip as second-string goalie...
Morgan Hatch, Yardling second line left wing, pulled the first hat trick of his career, scoring once in the second period and twice in the third. Johnny Snelling, second line center, collected a single goal in the last third of the contest...
...Myles Huntington took a goal-mouth pass from his left wing, Tom Moseley, and made it 4 to 1. For the next ten minutes, while the crowd of some 4000 roared excitedly, Harvard rushed the cage repeatedly, and with 15 seconds to go in the period Lew Preston took a pass from Coulter and scored...