Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...batch of tigers, a batch of lions-keeping their heads and shoulders low to avoid cuffs from the others. Crack, Crack! Crack ! The whiplash exploded like a bunch of firecrackers until all the animals were pedestaled-25 lions and lionesses, 15 tigers and tigresses. A tiger with ominously writhing tail left its post, slunk toward the small figure in white. Beatty put his head down almost to the sawdust, pretended to be staring the animal into submission. Actually he was giving invisible "cues." The tiger bellied down, backed slowly away...
...Boys, you've got the world by the tail," chuckled Yale's old Professor Irving Fisher some ten years ago when a couple of bright young graduates outlined their plans for exploiting a patented automatic stop & go traffic signal. By last week these two bright young Yalemen had discovered that if they did have the world by the tail, that was a very poor place to catch it. In Federal District Court in Manhattan Wallace Graydon Garland, class of 1925, and Arnold Caverly Mason, class of 1928, were convicted of conspiracy and mail fraud on 43 counts...
Although British Labor M. P.'s know their constituents are eager for Rearmament jobs, they know these toilers are also for Peace, and at the tail-end of last week's debate Labor Party Leader Major Clement Attlee mustered practically his followers' full strength behind a motion to censure the Baldwin Cabinet on the grounds that their Rearmament program is: 1) dealing a blow to the League of Nations; 2) raising the cost of living in the United Kingdom, 3) preparing the way for an eventual new Depression more disastrous than the last. By a vote...
...north, driving the master to cover. Wind, sleet and snow beat down on the old dog, but he, who had never in his life broken a point, refused to do so now. Next morning his master found him, half-buried in a snowdrift, still on point-head high, tail out like a champion, frozen dead...
...last week it appeared that from the beginning the Power tail is to wag the dam dog at Bonneville. Not to ship experts or fish experts but to power experts did Franklin Roosevelt go for advice on Bonneville's "incidental" problem. The President's Committee on National Power Policy (created six weeks ago) recommended in its first report that an administrator be appointed for Bonneville to conduct its operations along lines "not incompatible with any national power policy which may ultimately be established...