Word: tail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famous in scientific circles for his studies of how living things grow, has here produced a book which is intelligible to the layman yet includes enough scientific and mathematical data to be significant to scientists. He describes briefly experiments which show that a white rat, a pumpkin, the new tail of a tadpole (when the first tail is cut off), a colony of yeast cells in a sugar solution, a colony of fruit flies in a milk bottle, grow in the same way as the populations of countries according to their census counts. That is, the rate of growth...
...course remained to President Doumergue short of yielding to M. Blum's now publicly announced desire to be asked to form a cabinet. The President could call upon M. Herriot, "leader" of the cartel of which M. Blum was the tail that wagged the dog. If M. Herriot found that even he could not form a cabinet, because he could do nothing with Blum, then perhaps the cartel would split; and the deputies thus released from this stubborn bloc could be reformed by M. Briand, together with deputies from the Right, into a coalition that could command a majority...
Accordingly, President Doumergue called upon M. Herriot to lick his dog and its tail into shape and form a cabinet. For the third time last week the tail, wagged by M. Blum, wagged on. He would listen to nothing but supremacy for his Unified Socialists. Thus faced with flat insubordination in the cartel, M. Herriot grew furious. After informing President Doumergue that he could not form a cabinet, he rushed to a caucus of his still loyal adherents and had a motion passed approving his refusal to form a cabinet on Blum's terms. This action was widely interpreted...
...creature." One day, a few minutes late with the boa constrictor's supper, the keeper hurried into his cage to find him stretched on the floor, in the shape of a great stiff zero with one end of him inside the other. He had tried to eat his tail; his teeth had become caught on his scales; he had choked, writhed, and so-devoured by self-worship-choked to death...
...floating" meteor was vigorously described as "blue green about a foot wide with a red tail of red fire 30 feet long," and as "a ball of silver twice the size of a croquet, with a gold tail three yards long." According to an artist sketching on the Ipswich marshes, the meteor landed with a loud thud only a short distance away. A naval officer at Squantum, however, reported that he saw the meteor fall in the middle of Dorchester...