Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago last week the National Inventors Congress displayed a doughnut equipped with a handle for tidy dunking; an air-conditioned pie pan; a combination vanity case, walking stick, beach cape and umbrella. This is the organization which turned up in former years with a cow-tail restrainer (to prevent milkers from being switched); a funnel to facilitate the insertion of keys in keyholes; a mirror-maze mousetrap, hundreds of similar marvels...
...Vetoed another bill to permit docking horses' tails, commenting: "If the Almighty wanted the bony part of a horse's tail six inches shorter, why didn't He make them grow that way? Don't ask me to assist in changing His plans...
...buoy located the Squalus.) The crowd around the shipyards grew bigger. After 15 hours the first news came ashore. Fourteen miles off Great Ormes Head, Wales, the destroyer Brazen had spotted something in the sea. It was not a buoy but part of the Thetis herself-her tail, sticking in the air like a diving porpoise...
...where German Messerschmitts 109 could outfly Russian Moscas, Russian Chatos could out-maneuver Italian Fiats. In general, Germany is known to have some of the best fighting ships in Europe. Britain is perhaps runner up in airplane quality; Russia, although she has many ships, is somewhere down near the tail of the procession...
That they also enable panicked noncombatants to identify low-flying raiders, and even bombers in the middle military altitudes, is of no great military importance. Defending anti-aircraft crews identify friendly and enemy planes by their distinctive silhouettes, and to them wing and tail markings are only confirming evidence that approaching ships should be fired on or allowed...