Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winthrop House dominates the all-House Hockey team that was chosen by Intramural director Adolph Samborski '25 last night. Wing Henry Tilgham and center Bill La Croix represent the champions Puritans on the hoofers sextet. The other wing post was awarded to Tom White of Dunster, while John Hull of Eliot and Lenny Cummings of the Dudley Ramblers were selected for the defense slots. Sam Mixer of Adams was picked to tend the goalie's nets on the mythical...
...never meant to be a martyr. He was a wandering iron molder, an obscure left-wing Socialist, an unknown writer for a little, radical West Coast paper. Few Americans had ever heard of Tom Mooney until he went to prison for San Francisco's 1916 Preparedness Day bombing, and, if his guilt had been certain, few Americans would ever have heard of him again...
...Corps regulations demanded that crated wings of P-40s and P-39s be placed on end. Estimates along the waterfront were that 30 to 60% more planes could have been carried across the Pacific if wing crates could have been laid flat or on their sides...
...beginning of the season he centered the first line, but after Midyears he moved out to one of the wing-posts on that trio, and then very recently Coach John Chase moved him back to defense, where
...Force end of this complex operation was handled by Wing Commander Percy Charles Pickard. who had a pilot's part in the British film Target for Tonight. No doubt the Germans would build another detector station. But, Airman Pickard and his Army and Navy colleagues, in faultless timing, perfect coordination and complete success of their mission, had fought a fine war in miniature...