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Word: tail (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must jump, wait and then pull the rip cord. Otherwise the parachute may become entangled in the tail surfaces of the plane. This is undoubtedly what Sergeant Gilbert failed to dp. The instinctive impulse to pull the rip cord prevailed over careful training and the shrouds were cut by the sharp cables of the plane's rear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Parachute Fails | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

...decent intervals the descendants of John Harvard have striven to convince the stubborn Elis of their inherent sinfulness, but the well-known disrespect of the undergraduate has been an insuperable obstacle to conversion. When confronted with the doughty, or doughy, legions of Mr. Grant, the Bulldog cannot but turn tail with a weak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AND A NEW YALE | 12/6/1924 | See Source »

COBRA?Through the sundown summer season, this melodrama of the temptress Eve story twitched its tail bravely and with the coming of the new season has wriggled to renewed popularity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays: Nov. 17, 1924 | 11/17/1924 | See Source »

General Primo de Rivera, like all military geniuses, may be too opaque to see the joke, but if he does, Bagaria were better in Mars than in Spain. It is scarcely good policy to pull the lion's tail when one is locked alone with him in the cage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GULLIVER IN MADRID | 11/7/1924 | See Source »

...confess missing the point of a poem obviously subtle for fear that like the folk in the fable one isn't worthy of his office if he fails to see the magic garment of the king; as for this sonnet I for one can make neither head nor tail of it. The other verse is adequate, nothing more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVOCATE PLAYS APE REVIEWER BELIEVES | 9/29/1924 | See Source »

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