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Word: tailes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sculptor J. E. Fraser explained that the nickel Indian was a composite portrait of Indians Iron Tail, Two Moons and "a third whose name I have forgotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...Tail-wagging slat enthusiasts can put weekend and between-term skiing opportunities to use and still return with their shirts in tow. The only requirements: an inexhaustible appetite for a healthy, outdoor life, the ability to make one's own breakfast, and sufficient willpower to roll out at 7 o'clock in the morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hardy Ski Enthusiasts Can Curtail Vacation Expenses | 1/8/1948 | See Source »

Beachcomber is no great shakes on looks. Unlike most greyhounds, he has a short tail that curls up at the tip. But he has all the breed's other characteristics: uncanny hearing, remarkable eyesight, a not too highly developed sense of smell. His owner, Paul Sutherland, a 43-year-old ex-butcher from Tulsa, expects to gross $40,000 this year. Says he: "Like all good dogs . . . Beachcomber's got brains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dogs after Dark | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...comet's head (probably a collection of small, meteorlike objects traveling together like a swarm of bees) had separated into three parts. Its tail (gases driven away from the head by pressure of the sun's light) had dissipated. Only astronomers with powerful telescopes could follow the departing visitor as it moved across the sky toward Capricorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Shy Comet | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...line between the sun and earth. It was therefore hard to see, like a fighter plane diving on its enemy "out of the sun." In the southern hemisphere it was visible for a short time just after the sun had set, showing almost as bright as Venus, with a tail 50 million miles long. For northern hemisphere lookers, it Was a daytime comet: it was there but no one couid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Shy Comet | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

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