Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quickly be singled out from all the other rats. Labels attached to the rats or marks painted on them are not entirely satisfactory. A more popular method is notching or perforating the ears according to a code. Another is cutting off various combinations of toes, or different lengths of tail. Healing and regeneration of tissue sometimes blur such labels, however, and laboratory assistants sometimes make mistakes in the code pattern...
...Most interesting structural innovation of the DC-4 is its retractable tricycle landing gear, with a large wheel in the nose. Thanks to this forward wheel, DC-4 will always be in flying position, horizontal, tail up. No tail skid is necessary because the tail will never be near the ground. Passengers in sleeper planes will no longer be wakened by the rearward slant at each landing. The plane can take off relatively quickly, can "fly into" a landing. Blind landings will therefore be less dangerous, and, contrary to general belief, fields will not have to be extended for landing...
...regularly. Manager Smith, annoyed, swore: "There will never be another mouse game in this club." During the tryout one frightened mouse escaped. Another, indifferent to the croupier's threats and pleadings, made for the centre of the wheel, where he sat down, unabashedly licked himself from head to tail...
Mason Fernald turned in a satisfactory afternoon's performance by placing second in the low hurdles and third in the highs. Both finishes were very close, and he pressed his rival Ted Day to new meet records in both, though the low hurdle mark was disallowed because of the tail wind...
...electric eel (Electrophorus electricus), a brownish-grey, snake-like creature that is not an eel at all but belongs to the carp and catfish family. Especially abundant in the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers in South America, electric eels have six electricity-generating organs extending lengthwise through their tails, which make up four-fifths of the eel's body. If a man or animal touches an electric eel, he will be mildly shocked. But if he were brash enough to grab both the eel's head and tail at the same time, he might get a 500-volt charge...