Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East Hartford, Conn, last week a two-year-old Vought Corsair biplane scuttled along a runway, picked up its tail and leaped aloft after an amazingly short take-off run of 50 yd. The pilot whipped the plane into a vertical bank, streaked back at 225 m.p.h. The roar of the motor, one newshawk said afterward, was the deepest note he had ever heard from an aircraft engine. This engine was Pratt & Whitney's new 1830 Wasp, described by its makers as the most powerful ever developed for standard service in the U. S. Before the flight demonstration another...
...other respects the Harvard lineup remains unchanged from that which last weekend conquered Princeton and Cornell, the former of which had its tail tied in another knot by the Lions on Wednesday...
...tournament regularly jinxed by bad weather, the Masters' this year was almost washed away. Rain delayed the start one day. More rain postponed the last two rounds for another day. When the field finally went out for the last 18 holes, they met the tail end of a tornado, played under black skies that frightened spectators off the course. Cooper, worried by the strain of waiting, faltered with a 76. He went into the clubhouse to worry for one hour more while Smith was finishing with a brilliant 72 that gave him a four-round score...
Face to Dawn. For nearly three decades Senator Borah was the noble insurgent tail of the great conservative dog of the Republican Party. Then came 1932 and the great dog was soundly whipped. At last, the Idaho statesman figured, the hour had arrived when the whipped dog must answer to its tail. Two months ago the Senator publicly proclaimed the fact: "Nothing much is going to be taken for granted in this campaign. Everything will have to be tested and approved, from platform to candidate...
Thus in the most candid German fashion the Nazi election cat was extracted from the bag last week by Adolf Hitler and swung by the tail before the eyes of London statesmen. Whatever they did not see, they heard in Nazi electioneering speeches...