Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the regeneration can be explained by the appearance of new coaching talent on the Blue horizon in the person of Howie Odell. Operating from a basic single wing-back formation, Odell has combined the features of attacks that he learned while coaching at Pittsburgh (under that canny old fundamentalist Jock Sutherland), Harvard, and Pennsylvania. The secret of his winning system and the tip-off on what to watch for when and if Yale starts to march on Saturday can be gleaned from his own words...
...second half, the Mass. State booters came roaring to a score, when Iampietro, State wing, tallied midway in the period. Once again the Crimson rallied continually, keeping the ball well down in scoring territory, but continually lacking the punch to put it across...
Radcliffe and Harvard students and faculty members will combine their efforts for the war once more tonight when several hundred students from the two colleges are inducted into the Boston Air Defense Wing in ceremonies to take place in Cabot Hall at Radcliffe College...
Volunteers from the two institutions will take part in civilian defense tasks at the Boston information Center, the exact nature of which cannot be made public. In a statement on the volunteers' action. Col, Minthorne W. Reed. Commanding Officer of the Boston Air Defense Wing, said that the duties would call for "a sense of loyalty, an appreciation of responsibility, and a spirit of sacrifice...
Profit & Loss. Pan Am's expeditionary force could be well satisfied with its job, though Pan Am was ill satisfied with the result. The Army has profited by Pan Am experience and Pan Am by U.S. money. For months Brigadier General Shepler Fitzgerald's wing of the Air Transport Command has been learning airline transport technique, has all but officially militarized the entire operation. Pan Am employes were offered commissions and technical enlisted status to stay on the job. Many accepted; many others stayed with Juan Trippe, who may yet come out of World War II with many...