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Word: tails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sides. Not until the ship was well away from the scene did Captain Manning slow down to empty the boats. After all were brought back aboard, the Washington sighted another submarine. Taking no chances on his blinker this time, anxious Captain Manning worked an old sea trick by turning tail on the sub at such an angle that the Washington sailed toward the sun and its rays blinded the possible pursuer, which soon disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH SEAS: American Ship! American Ship! | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...last week's end the refrigerators were all gone and Storekeeper Ballew had moved some $8.000 worth of merchandise. With one week to go he addressed a final plea to his customers: "Folks, it's just like the monkey said when the lawn mower ran over its tail -it won't be long now. We must clean up our stock before we join the ranks of the State's non-paying guests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Prison Sale | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

Though the old Cinderella story alone always makes good entertainment, in "Irene" music, beauty, and a behemoth colored-mammy jitterbug are thrown in for good measure. Anna Neagle is the starryeyed girl with an Irish brogue who falls into fairyland. Ray Milland and Alan Marshall are the tail-coated sheiks who try to catch her. And when Ellis Island and Plymouth Rock don't quite fit together, May Robson is there to prove that you can't stop an O'Dair from the County Clare after he's caught sight of a goal or a bottle. As granny...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 6/7/1940 | See Source »

...Teague organization, who never once forgot that two men impersonating a horse are always good for a laugh. A Thousand Times Neigh is a Ford's-eye-view of the problems of Dobbin, a $1,000 steed of cloth and leather, with movable eyes, ears, lips, jaws, tail. Horse-players: Vladimir Vassilieff, Kari Karnikovski. From 1903 to the present, Dobbin foots it featly while such top-notch Caravan dancers as Marie Jeanne and Nicki Magallanes mime the rise of the Ford-often on the toes of their ballet slippers. The music of NBC Staff Composer Tom Bennett, canned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ballet for Ford | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...bladed, 14-foot overhead rotor (propeller), its spraddle-legged landing gear, its conventional airplane controls. Into the pilot's seat crawled Designer Sikorsky. The 75-h.p. engine back of the seat of his pants began to buzz, the rotor began to whirl. Three tiny propellers in an outrigger tail, used for stabilizer, rudder and elevators, whistled into shimmering discs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Vertical Flight | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

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