Word: tail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Preserved Sloth. Perhaps 1,000,000 years ago, certainly 500,000, a dumpy, pale yellow ground sloth, 8 feet long from its small head to its thick tail, lumbered terrorized near what is now El Paso, Texas. Some predatory beast was chasing it, perhaps a sabre-toothed tiger. The sloth was a plant-eating animal with soft teeth and did not know how to fight. So it could only lope towards a hole it knew. It reached the hole, scrambled over the ledge, fell 100 feet to the bottom. Bats who mat> the place their perch fluttered and squeaked fearfully...
...hung around the post office a great deal, insulting the people who came in, and the postmaster kicked him out twice. Then he got gay with Princeton, and was surprised to find he had a tiger by the tail. But others persuaded last year's editorial board to take the big job of cleaning...
When his ship nosed into Rio's mountain-shadowed harbor last week the port was reverberant with welcoming din. Airplanes cavorted about. A great passenger plane, with 14 people, half of them national notables, almost struck another machine; the pilot veered, weakened a wing, went into a tail spin; the plane splashed into the water; all 14 were drowned. Rio's din ceased. Flyer Santos-Dumont walked from his ship, head down, depressed...
...great loggerhead turtle is posed in frantic flight in an exhibition case of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. Its neck is stretched far forward; its flippers beat the water; its runty tail sticks straight out behind. Driving after the turtle are several varieties of sharks-leathery bodies, cold, piggish eyes, blunt snouts all straining towards the prey...
...Liberty-engined Fokker from Roosevelt Field to San Diego in 26 hours and 50 minutes. Last August this same Yankee Doodle, flown by Col. Arthur Goebel, made the crossing from Los Angeles, Calif., to Curtiss Field, L. I., in 18 hours and 58 minutes. He was aided by a tail wind much...