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Word: tails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Command-Aire-3-seat open cockpit biplane; wings equal but staggered; in-line motor; fuselage shaped to usual tail; balanced rudder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Manhattan Show | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Stearman--3-seat open cockpit biplane; wings unequal; strutted to fuselage; fuselage slim; sharp curves on tail units; radial engine; split axled wheels close to body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Manhattan Show | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...metal like the rest of the plane in corrugated sheet; fuselage low slung, heavy; rudder high, wide sweeping; three radial engines, one in nose and two suspended under the wing on either side; pilot's cockpit in advance of leading edge; wide wheel base; steerable wheel on tail skid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Manhattan Show | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...hard for him. Feeling his strength passing, he got a new job in a furrier's shop, and after working for several years started a little business of his own in Chicago. At the World's Fair of 1893 he paid 5¢ to see an elephant switch its tail in the Edison kinetoscope, the first crude moving-picture machine. Author Will Irwin says: "That five-cent piece was the initial investment which grew into his present fortune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paramount's Papa | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...imagery of folklore, and in his reluctant 60's writes _a slim volume on old age reduced to platonic abstractions. What shall I do with this absurdity 0 heart, 0 troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a god's tail? But even age cannot undo with argument Yeats' fantastic imagination: Valley, river, and elms, under the light of a moon That seems unlike itself, that seems unchangeable, A glittering sword out of the east. A puff of wind And those white glimmering fragments of the mist sweep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Age | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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