Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flutter of wing or tail surfaces may wrack a plane to pieces when it reaches a certain periodicity and intensity. With military planes approaching 300 m.p.h., wing flutter has become a major problem. The committee has developed a method of foreseeing and guarding against structural fatigue and failure...
...visited an old colonial house purchased long before by his father and now ready for the wreckers. Prowling through the empty rooms he stopped and stared at a strange thing hanging over a mantel. Nearly a foot long and apparently mummified, it had two widespread, goatish feet, a curling tail, flaps of tissue extending from its body like wings, a grotesque caricature of a human face with plump cheeks, beady eyes, a pursed, smirking mouth...
...white peoples the Europeans increase most slowly and the most civilized European countries the slowest of all. Fertility champions of Europe are the Jugoslavs with a 35 net increase per 1,000 population per year. Tail-enders are the Swedes with a net increase...
Captions explained the pictures. The man was a Pilot Erich Kocher. He flew by lung-power, utilizing the rotor principle. Strapped to his chest was an assembly of two horizontal rotors. He had skiis on his feet for landing gear, and a finlike tail attached to his stern. By blowing into a box on his chest, Pilot Kocher made the rotors revolve. The turning rotors created a suction ahead, into which Pilot Kocher & apparatus sailed gaily, while his excited friends trotted after him. The august New York Times, proud of its minute coverage of aviation, printed the picture...
...lost two games in a row to the Athletics, generally dismantled last autumn because they failed to make money. For the Chicago White Sox, leaving Pasadena, Calif, last week, the major question was still whether George Earnshaw would be as effective as he used to be for Philadelphia. Apparent tail-ender in the American League, this year as last, are the St. Louis Browns. The Cleveland Indians, under Manager Walter Johnson, last week won two out of three games against Washington...