Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago's Century of Progress to Baseball's No. 2 event of the year. Cincinnatians from beer-garden waiters to socialites were excited over the game. For among the picked National League players were five Cincinnati Reds, an unprecedented number for the league's perennial tail-enders and a larger representation than that of any other club. Even more unprecedented was the fact that two of them were rookies, and one, 22-year-old Johnny Vander Meer, who had skyrocketed to fame a few weeks earlier when he won two no-hit, no-run games within five...
...bitterling, which obstetricians once used as a test for pregnancy (TIME, Oct. 12, 1935), as Medicine's favored fish. Called telescope fish- because it has big. pop eyes, one out of five is so transparent that its gall bladder, intestine, heart and a big vein in the tail are easily seen. Although telescope fish cost only 3? apiece in Philadelphia, only place in the U. S. where they are bred, the visibility of their internal organs makes them precious to medical scientists, particularly to Philadelphia Pharmacologist Arno Viehoever. Dr. Viehoever discovered that the transparent water flea, Daphnia...
...wide, has four provinces. Were it a fish the head would be Bohemia, inhabited largely by Czechs with Germans predominating along the western Sudeten border. The body would be the provinces of Moravia & Silesia, largely Czech populated, and Slovakia, thick with Slovaks, who are Slavs like the Czechs. The tail would be Carpathian Ruthenia...
...started by Allan and Malcolm Loughead, who changed their name because so many people pronounced it "loghead." The company has produced many first-class planes, has had its share of first-class bad luck. After the Northwest Airlines crash in January-when part of the H-shaped tail "fluttered" off a 14-it grounded the model. The fault was corrected by static balances within ten days. About 27 Lockheed 145 have been operating safely ever since...
...Annunzio son of the late Italian Poet-Flyer Gabriele D'Annunzio, stalled the engine in his airplane. He hopped out, spun the propeller. As the motor caught and the plane began to move, Aviator D'Annunzio ducked the wing., missed the cabin, was knocked flat by the tail. The pilotless plane wheeled dizzily round the field, crashed through a fence, pinned a woman bystander against her automobile. The woman was hospitalized. Charged with third-degree assault, Flyer D'Annunzio was arrested, held in $500 bail...