Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasionally spewing water ballast. At 7:20 p.m. precisely, two lines fell from the bow. A trained squad of Navy men grabbed one, a squad of civilians the other. Gently the two groups began coaxing the big bag to the mooring mast. The breeze teasing the tail made it more difficult than usual. Captain Pruss put the two Mercedes-Benz Diesel engines in the stern gondolas into reverse to keep from overshooting the mast. Witnesses noticed that the port motor was backfiring...
Putting salt on the tail of a cosmic corpuscle which can penetrate 10 centimeters of lead is no mean feat, but Jabez C. Street, assistant professor of Physics, and Edward C. Stevenson, instructor in Physics, have succeeded in doing just that, according to announcements from Jefferson Research Laboratory...
Modelled from a female Indian rhinoceros in the Bronx Zoo, New York, each of the statues stands about six feet tall and measures over thirteen feet from horn to tail. The statues are not duplicates, having been designed and cast separately. The Indian rhinoceros, selected because it is one of the nearest modern relatives of the prehistoric dinosaurs, is larger than its African relatives and possesses primitive three-toed feet. It is nearly extinct; only about 250 are now alive...
...With only a fortnight to go before Coronation, Lord Amherst's Sovereign and his consort last week took a state voyage down the Thames from Westminster to Greenwich, famed for fried whitebait and the o° meridian. Queen Elizabeth wore fawn, King George the tight tail coat of an Admiral of the Fleet. Ocean liners, tramps and tugs were aflutter with bunting, and crowds stood six deep along the quay-sides. Eighteen years ago when King George V went down the Thames he rode in a gaudy gilded rowboat pulled by the blue-capped royal bargemen. George VI last...
...feet high and thirteen feet from horn to tail, the models are worthy rivals in size for the Yard's Chinese dragon. It is reliably reported that they are lady rhinoceri, but they are not twins, since they were designed and cast separately...