Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stanley Baldwin on the issue of India's future status, resigned from the Conservative "shadow cabinet" on Jan. 27, 1931. He has since continued (with no appearance of success) his attempts (by loud public speechmaking) to get a wagging hold on the Conservative party through its die-hard tail, of which...
...small, saucy two-month-old dog with large brown eyes and tail curled up behind arrived in Manhattan last week on the steamer Stavangerfjord. It was one of Norway's best elkhounds, on its way to Washington to be First Puppy of the Land. The Norwegian Elkhound Association of America, which met the dog at the boat, had purchased it from Dr. Dyrlage T. Hemsen, one of Norway's most famed dog breeders. They planned to present it to President Hoover to take the place of the late German shepherd King Tut (TIME, June 13). Pedigree papers were...
...Jack was still in it. A wonderful last day might put him in the finals; otherwise the national field championship would be between Mary Blue, champion in 1929, and Yankee Doodle Jack. Mary Blue, white & liver pointer bitch owned by Standard Oil Tycoon Walter Teagle, froze to a point, tail raised high: a bevy of quail slanted into the air. Again and again she pointed, covered ground tirelessly, made only one mistake. Judges gave her the title, with Yankee Doodle Jack second...
...last summer a Junkers monoplane, carrying a party of British socialites home from a house party in France, was seen by villagers of Kent to "break up" in the air: wings and tail dropped off. All six occupants were killed (TIME, July 28). Last week the New York Herald Tribune reported from London the Air Ministry's finding, a newly discovered cause of crashes: "buffeting" of the tail unit, as opposed to "flutter...
...Flutter" is the name given to a rapid, rippling vibration which most commonly affects the unsupported wing of a monoplane, sometimes causing it to tear apart, but which at high speeds may affect the tail. Working with a model of the crashed plane, the investigators found it could not have flown fast enough to produce tail-flutter. But at slow speeds, they discovered, the plane's low wing could set up wicked eddying currents which wrenched the tail up and down, destroying all control. This they called "buffeting," and concluded it had sent the Junkers into its fatal dive...