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Word: tailed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's nine novice boats in Saturday's Tail of the Charles had an ulterior motive for shaving some seconds off their times--they wanted to get to The Game. So, while impatient friends gunned the motors of their Hertzes, three of the lightweight crews streaked into first, second and third places in their division and the three heavyweight crews pulled into fourth, fifth and eighth places...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: Men's Lightweights Sweep Tail Novice Heavies Place 4th, 5th | 11/24/1981 | See Source »

Thirty boats from six New England schools gathered at the starting line in a drenching rain--and there were even fewer spectators huddled at the finish. The inclement weather made steering difficult, especially since the Tail was the first race ever for most of the oarsmen...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: Men's Lightweights Sweep Tail Novice Heavies Place 4th, 5th | 11/24/1981 | See Source »

...scene reminiscent of the Spanish Armada, 30 boats from 10 New England colleges clogged the Charles last Saturday for the Tail of the Charles, the first race of the year for novice women's crew teams and the first race ever for 60 aspiring rowers...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: Women Novices Row to Third At the Tail | 11/17/1981 | See Source »

...always in the past, so in the future: each ecosystem will produce its own specialized creatures. Relocated deserts will give rise to new animals capable of enduring for months without water, like the cameloid yet kangaroo-like desert leaper, able to store fat and other nutrients in its tail. Dixon proposes new islands settled by bats, which will evolve into forms specially adapted to exploit each of the islands' food sources. One group could well develop into an aquatic species capable of using its winged forelimbs for swimming. Another could, in the absence of competition, turn into the carnivorous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Once and Future Zoo | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

...flowers segue from red to royal blue. Now the queen, revived in love, rides through the meadow, and the colors chorus riotously: her hair is rifle-fire red, the grass a Midas gold, the trees electric green, her horse an impossible white-and as it gallops by, its tail waves bright yellow in the new morning breeze of a storybook kingdom brought to life in the movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Raise the Colors | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

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