Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...around & around the measured course. Electric timing cameras caught him at 430 m.p.h. as he entered his last lap. Then, with an official world record within a few miles of his grasp, Lieut. Nerfs plane shot askew of its course. One of the flippers had been wrenched from its tail. "Death Cheat" Neri kept his ship in control, landed safely...
Ticket's Tail. Because Congress will probably have to work straight through the G. O. P. convention, Vice President Curtis expected to find himself perched high on his Senate throne when the delegates in Chicago get around to the tail of the ticket. That that place would again be his he had no serious doubt. President Hoover had not asked his 1928 running mate to step aside for another candidate. The Vice President, therefore, reasoned that a Hoover-Curtis ticket was again in order. So did most of the delegates last week on their way to Chicago...
...vertical wind tunnel through which smoke is poured around a suspended plane model, to expose the tricks of air currents causing the dread tailspin. Photographs indicated that, the prime obstacle to recovery from a spin is the "blanketing" of the rudder by the horizontal tail surfaces...
...from Mr. Wees describing the miseries which he encountered in a neighborhood about 700 mi. west of Rio de Janeiro and 700 mi. north of Buenos Aires: "We spent days and nights hunting and when we shot nothing we were hungry in a forest of game. Braised alligator tail tastes like flaked codfish. Here spider webs enmesh birds. Ants drive us from our hammocks into a circle of ashes. The hordes of insects for which the region does not provide a living cause us night after night of sleeplessness. One especially virulent species has poisoned us all. Potent does...
...varsity this season, in centre field, and at bat, that he has given Coach Mitchell a tricky batting order problem. The big right-hander has moved into Captain Lupien's fourth place on the batting roster, and has kept himself from sinking back into the pitcher's traditional tail-end position by virtue of his fine hitting at critical moments. Devens is the Crimson first string twirler, and has therefore been saved for the heavier Saturday games in the past. Instead of sitting on the bench during the week he has been playing in centre field for Gleason...