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Word: tailless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tailless Plane. A triangular shaped "stork" plane, lacking conventional tail structure, flew 78 m.p.h. with a 8-h.p. motor, at Berlin. Its constructor, Alexander Lippisch, thus approximated the flying goal of an all-wing ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...Tailless mice, upon which, as a race, there periodically comes an urge to descend to the sea and drown by the million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Friendly Arctic | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

...muscle and whose footwork as she bounded on the deck proclaimed that she could take a fall out of any man not specially trained to withstand her"; Oilskin Jack and Bonita Sam, who finally wearied of sailoring and bought a little farm in Australia with an asthmatic horse, a "tailless rooster and two scolding hens" for equipment; and the sailmaker, who had such an eloquent sniff that he needed no other means of communication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waste* | 4/28/1924 | See Source »

...Carson Tailless on Clever Pass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TORONTO SEXTET DOWNS CRIMSON 7-5 IN EXTRA PERIODS | 1/4/1923 | See Source »

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