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Word: tails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quite enough. No more than 100 feet from the top of the rise, Pilot Wright saw he must certainly crash. He eased his ship into a stall close to the trees, let her pancake. Her right wing ripped off and she banged down to the ground, her tail flipping forward over the fuselage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Take-off Trouble | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

...engine to make up for rough design, but a flying machine as sleek and carefully designed as a Spitfire. Rolling through the door the B-19 looked even bigger than she had in the hangar. To get her out, they had had to deflate her tires and weight her tail, so that the nose wheel of her tricycle landing gear was off the ground. Even then her rudder barely cleared the top of the door. And no wonder. For standing in take-off position, the top of her rudder is more than 42 ft. above the ground, higher than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: B-19 | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

Since last fall the Dodgers have acquired: 1) Fireball Pitcher Kirby Higbe, who won 14 games for the tail-end Phillies' last year; 2) onetime Cardinal Mickey Owen, a Grade A catcher; 3) onetime Pirate Paul Waner, seasoned outfielder; 3) Second Baseman Alex Kampouris, who led the International League in home runs last year. Besides, they have mighty Joe Medwick, the slugger whom Boss Larry MacPhail bought for $132,500 last summer, only to have him beaned and made ball-shy for the rest of the season. This spring, comforted by a bean-proof plastic headguard which all Dodgers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball of 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...Hegel can't persuade me that a syllogism can wag its tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Postman Rings Twice | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...charcoal-white, blue, yellow, black and red. Trickling each handful in a fine stream between thumb and forefinger, they drew lines and wedge-shaped patches as accurately as draughtsmen, pinched off a dot or a spot of color here & there as featly as if they were salting the tail of a bird. It was beautiful. It was also impressive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Charley and the Grandson | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

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