Word: tails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tail...
...Antonio, Texas, was born of normal human parents a child with a tail (length unspecified). On physicians' advice, the father, the proud mother decreed that the tail should be amputated when the child attained an age of seven months...
...made known that 30 or 40 Marines will be detailed to guard the "Summer White House," White Court, at Swampscott, Mass., because the White House Secret Service force is inadequate to guard the rugged shoreline and all the boundaries at Swampscott. General Lejeune will pick the de- tail personally...
...animal is but an abbreviation of his racial history. This is true of man as of the rest of the animal kingdom. He begins with a single cell, which multiplies. In the fetus, he develops a cartilaginous spine, then a segmented back bone, an elongated body, a well-developed tail, five gill slits (two of which later become the Eustachian tubes) ; he resembles in turn a fish, an amphibian, a primitive reptile, a primitive mammal, an ape; he has dark soft hair covering the entire body except the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet until three...
...tail that sticks out straight...