Word: tails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offer aroused little enthusiasm among the other members of the Shipping Board. It was received with some favor by business men, one of whom hoped that the Shipping Board would follow the boats into the junk pile: "Let the tail go with the hide." Furtively, shipowners, native and foreign, prayed for the demolition of the ships because, bad as they are, they constitute a vaguely potential threat of competition...
...placid cannibals were most likely at a loss, last winter, when they pricked their ears to the distant humming of a billion ants on the move, a humming that became the drone of a host of baritone bees, of one giant bee, of a visible giant bee with a tail like a scorpion, of the first airplane those cannibals had ever seen. Down from heaven fell red parachutes at their feet -bales of beads, knives, gewgaws. "Glug," mused the cannibals, "glug, glug." The chances were that the next big bee that might happen along would be well received, even...
...expenses by issuing bank notes that were backed by an insignificant gold reserve. In other words, the value of the franc depreciated, causing prices to rise to new heights. This, in turn, forced the Government to issue still more paper francs. And so the dog went on chasing its tail...
...congregation in Penn Yan, N. Y., undertook to read aloud the entire Bible in one day, by a relay team of 200 fast-speakers. The head man commenced: "In the beginning God created," etc., at 3 a. m. The tail man finished "... be with you all. Amen...
...William Clive Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, defended the increased naval appropriations (TIME, Mar. 23) in a spirited speech. He went over a lot of old ground and became interesting only when he arrived at the tail end of his speech and found himself at Singapore. He saw no offense to Japan in building the base. He accused the Labor Party of dropping the project as a gesture to get other countries to cooperate in universal disarmament. He quoted an American as saying: "When you cooperate with people, you find they do the operating while...