Word: tailed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, The American Girl bucked storms. Flying high, flying low, sleet and wind cut into her. Once Miss Elder, unafraid, climber out onto the tail of the ship to balance it. In perilous spells she relieved her co-pilot at the levers. Two thirds of the way across, they veered still further south of their course to avoid a low pressure storm area. Then the oil presure fell. Part of the gasoline supply had been dumped to lighten the ship in its fight against the storm. They knew that their time was short...
Evolution is a great thing. The monkey who swings by his tail and throws cocoanuts evolves into the man who walks upright and gets hit by the cocoanut; the callow Freshman evolves into the potent, grave, and reverend Senior; an Intercolleiate Dance evolves into a riot, and even music itself has evolved from the soft tinkling of rude strings to the raucous squawk of the saxaphone...
...organizations (there must be a million of them) and, meeting in one room in private, discuss some fundamental questions. They would be: 'Where are we at?,' 'How much of the work that we women do outside the home is just like a kitten chasing its tail?,' 'How much is duplication?' and 'How much attention do we pay to little troubles and not to the big ones...
...baby was born. Nurse Meyer sang out "Male!" The student aid wrote on a piece of adhesive plaster, "Male, No. 70"; slapped the plaster on the baby's back. In the shake of a dead lamb's tail the baby was on its way to the nursery; in a longer jiffy the mother was trundled towards her hospital bed; and interne and nurses washed their hands, turned around for the next case. Ten minutes later Mrs. Sam Smith's own doctor came, looked at hospital records, genially congratulated Sam Smith on the birth...
Aboard the City of Eureka, ship that sailed from Manhattan last week, a well groomed heifer whisked her tail; a bull, morose, fastened in his stall, braced his feet; 13 other high-grade bulls and heifers stirred uneasily to the vibration of the ship. They, blessed by Father Lazarus of the Orthodox Greek Church in Manhattan, were on their way to Athens, where they are intended to stimulate and improve (with the co-operation of the Near East Relief), the native animal husbandry...