Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rucker; and in which his catcher, Jimmy Wilson, was enabled to make a record also, with 18 putouts; at St. Louis. Manager Frisch's oldtime rival, Rogers Hornsby, this year his understudy on the Cardinals, last week left the team to become manager of the St. Louis Browns, tail-enders in the American League...
...hook and sometimes a wooden lure is trolled ahead of it to rouse the broadbill's interest. To take the line out of the wake of the boat a kite is often rigged to it and flown off the quarter. The fish are sighted when their fins and tails clip the water's surface. Technique then is to drag your bait before the fish. As in bass fishing, it is ruinous to try to set your hook at. the first strike or when the fish is pointed toward you (it would fly out of his mouth). Once hooked...
...unauthorized persons from witnessing the secret practices of the varsity football team. Mike had a failed banner given to him in 1908 by Percy Haughton. Waving this flag before him he lead the snake dances and football rallies in the old days. At other times he would don a tail silk hat, and with the same banner attend the important weddings where Harvard athletes were concerned...
...Spring and watched the sun play Lotto with the chubby red tower across the river, and later he had watched the channel lights on the bridges wink at themselves. Tonight, though, he had not been alone; a cur had laughed at his feet in the water, and whipped a tail in his eye, and besides, the green tower interfered with the sun's business. It was summer, and the Vagabond sighed...
...ship had been rebuilt around the old engine, propeller and tanks, with fuselage, wings & tail surfaces taken from another plane which had once made a record flight to Buenos Aires. The whole was painted red-white-&-blue with the markings of an eagle in flight, and named Century of Progress. (Mattern's backers were H. B. Jameson and Hayden R. Mills of Chicago.) A big, blond, curly-headed Texan, onetime trapdrummer, seasoned pilot, Mattern was in the pink of condition. Besides a half dozen oranges he carried two gaily painted vacuum bottles of hot water given him by Artist...