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Word: taile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motor launches and smoke-boats. Their job was to block the Bruges Canal, from which U-boats had been darting on their deadly errands. As they set out, Vice Admiral Roger Keyes signaled the others: "St. George for England," and one answered: "May we give the dragon's tail a damned good twist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In Weymouth Bay | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...settled. I was called a Communist for six weeks and a Nazi for two minutes. I've done no solid job yet from the newspaper point of view. From the other side there's a job to be done-San Francisco needs a kick in the tail. But I hope to do that with the newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Smart Squirt | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...Hardys of Carvel, the old judge (Lewis Stone), his long-suffering wife (Fay Holden), moony Marian (Cecilia Parker) and bratty Andy (Mickey Rooney). The Hardys' wholesome, homey doings are designed to arouse in their millions of fans no emotion stronger than delighted recognition. Andy, more than ever the tail that wags the Hardy dog, reacts to spring by falling in love with his pretty new dramatics teacher (Helen Gilbert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 24, 1939 | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...outside observers ft seemed that somebody had the wrong bull by the tail. For in the U. S. S. R., according to the New York Times'?, Harold Denny, "any theory that implies hereditary superiority is anathema." Yet no Soviet anathema has fallen on Darwinism, whose theories (of natural selection and survival of the fittest) are premised on hereditary superiority. The basic researches of Mendel and Morgan, which the students explicitly to-helled, have less to do with superiority than with the actual mechanisms of heredity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chase Formal Genetics! | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...altitude of less than 100 ft., something happened. The motor sputtered, the plane faltered, dived into the river, settled with its nose on the bottom, its tail sticking out of water. The watchers at Boiling Field, including the flier's wife and son, saw it all. Dr. Luis Quintanilla, counselor of the Mexican Embassy, and Naval Attache Manuel Zermeno jumped into automobiles, jounced over fields to the riverbank. Quintanilla and Zermeno flung off their coats, plunged in, swam to the plane, tried to pull Sarabia out. But he was inert, wedged in the cockpit, his head pressed against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: I Shiver | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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