Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter how hard Japan sat on the Chinese dragon's head there was still many a good twitch in its tail. Reports persisted that Lwanchow, strategic city on the south bank of the Lwan River, was still being held last week by its Chinese defenders despite repeated Japanese attacks. Most surprising news came from Berlin...
...horses so that the Glee Club had to walk back to Cambridge. During the next 25 years there was another short-lived Glee Club; then a third which was organized "to acquaint the College with good choral music." Last week in Cambridge this Glee Club, in white ties and tail coats, gave a birthday concert which would have taxed the most experienced of choristers...
Last week New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman signed a bill which made his State the first to prohibit the "nicking" of horses' tails. Few laymen knew what the expression meant. Even amateur horsemen sometimes think the show horse's smartly arched tail is a result of breeding or training...
...permanently arched tail is the result of an operation and an excruciatingly painful setting process. A veterinarian cuts and breaks the horse's tail much as an unskilled woodsman might hack and push down a sapling. Incisions are made on, the upper side, the flexor muscles on the under side cut eight to twelve inches back from the base. Then the tail is doubled back, tightly bandaged, supported by an iron "bustle." Three weeks are usually required for the tail to heal and set. Thrown into a sweating frenzy by this prolonged torture, horses often lose more than...
...agreed with Commander Wiley that a sudden down-current of air forced the Akron's tail into water, and that that broke the ship...