Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Director Doran beginning: "You are advised that Senator Curtis has again called my attention to the application of the Spa Chemical Co." The permit was then obtained. He quotes Director Doran as saying: "I believe you are absolutely right . . . but I should hate to have Senator Curtis on my tail." The Administrator commented last week: "I had plenty on my tail in the summer of the 1928 Hoover-Curtis campaign...
...week Pilot Vance Breese took a Parks biplane to 2,500 ft., cut the motor, stalled it into a spin, yanked a release cord. A little "pilot 'chute" popped out of its container under the fuselage, dragging a big 'chute (60 ft.) billowing up and over the tail. The plane, suspended by its centre wing section from the parachute, floated earthward at about 15 m. p. h.. swinging and gyrating as it settled. On alighting, only damage was to landing-gear and lower wing...
Poisonous Tail. From a study of photographs taken of Halley's comet at its last appearance in 1910, Dr. N. T. Bobrovnikoff, Perkins Observatory, Ohio Wesleyan, found that the comet really had two tails. One, narrow and brilliant, consisted of carbon monoxide gas, would have killed all life on earth if it had approached too closely. The other tail was curved, consisted of meteoric dust...
...Mark, radio equipped, had a 650 h. p. Hispano-Suiza motor and a top speed close to 160 m. p. h. Its instrument panel, with more than 30 dials including the invaluable "artificial horizon," offered practically every known aid to navigation. Yet even with weather conditions unusually good, with tail winds for much of the way, with such crack airmen as Coste & Bellonte at the controls, the Question Mark was forced to fly 4,100 mi. at an average speed of 109 m. p. h. Its flying time was 37 hr. 18 min. Neither plane could have carried a payload...
...decades would even now be difficult, for no one can know what noble proposal may be offered at any moment and manfully carried out nor what recrudescence of the Stone Age may suddenly appear under the united protection of the male vote. . . . You have seen a kitten waggling its tail with body atremble as it spies an imaginary mouse. It is proclaiming what it is going to do, when it grows up. So women voters with wrinkled brows are looking on?indignation mounting here, aspiration growing there and determination everywhere. Some day these voters may well be grown-up enough...