Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...example of the obsolete character of Stillman, Dr. Bock pointed out that the old wing of the building had nothing but an outside staircase until 1935. This was supposedly to prevent the carrying of germs by inside staircases, an outmoded idea in medicine...
...first title since 1936 in the Quadrangular Hockey League today is the prized possession of Yale and its leading scorer, Roger Hazen, 6-foot 2-inch, 173-pound wing from Lebanon, N. H., who shares with Dartmouth's captain, Dan Sullivan, the Quad's individual scoring crown...
Prennie Willetts, left wing play-maker on the second forward trio, was unanimously elected to succeed Captain Bill Coleman as leader of next winter's Varsity hockey attack, at a meeting of the team yesterday afternoon...
While Planeman Piper was attending the Los Angeles aircraft show on March 16, 1937, his plant burned to the ground. Only 15 planes, some wings, fuselages, spare parts were saved. When he got back, he found his mechanics out on the field putting together a plane with one silver wing, one red one. Pocketing his $75,000 loss (virtually no insurance), he bought a fireproof brick building from Susquehanna Silk Mills in Lock Haven, Pa., 80 miles away, renamed his company Piper Aircraft Corp., and started over. His loss for the year was only $39,555, and in 1938 profits...
Died. Henry Tindall Merrill Jr., 11-month-old son of Flier "Dick" Merrill and Cinemactress Toby Wing; of suffocation (he was first thought to have strangled in his bedclothes); in Forest Hills...