Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reports of a new tenth magnitude comet were received Saturday from the observatory at Hamburg, Germany by the authorities of the Harvard Observatory. Discovered by the astronomers Schwassmann and Wackmam, this newest addition to the realm of celestial spheres has a tail two degrees in length...
...drew a .38 calibre revolver; there were four reports. As the dentist fled into his office, one slug tore through his coat tail. The 65-year-old publisher was struck down, riddled three times, the last shot tearing into him as he lay on the ground...
...neither kind nor dignified to ridicule an occupation chosen seriously and fraught with all the ardent idealism of youth. The chick that will emerge from the academic egg this June does not deserve a harsh rebuff. What if a few pieces of shell do grace its diminutive tail feathers! Think of the Big Bear and the Medium-sized Bear and all the little Bears that amble so quaintly through the nursery days! Happy childhood will seem so far away out in the great world that it seems a shame to tear this last tattered page from Mother Goose...
...glasses were brought to bear upon it, and instead of a violent, submarine volcanic action I saw two mammoth denizens of the deep-two whales-who were having a glorious time, splashing and frisking, tail-thwacking and nose-bumping, diving and hurdling, and their actions for a considerable radius had churned the calm, listless sea into a veritable caldron of boiling, foaming, angry water...
Further excerpts: ". . . The old inventor had spread the tail of his frock coat like a sail and was in full flight toward the abyss of night. 'Do you mean to say,' shouted the saint as he caught up with him, 'that you actually don't want to enter heaven...