Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navajo language. Its authors: Novelist-Ethnologist Oliver (Laughing Boy) La Farge and Smithsonian Institution's Dr. John P. Harrington. The new language used the English alphabet, created words which resembled the scientists' jargon and the Navajos' vernacular closely enough so that both sides could make head & tail of them. Last week posters drawn by Navajo artists and designed to teach Navajos the language by means of pictures and text (see cut) were displayed all over the reservation. Passed around in Navajo classrooms was the first Navajo primer, a fairy tale...
...newts are bright red in color, are known as "red efts." During this phase they are immature and cannot reproduce. After three or four years, they go back to the water, slough off the red skin of adolescence, assume the olive-green garb of adults, acquire the keeled tail of an aquatic animal, and tackle the business of parenthood. Question: What impels them, after so long a time on land, to go back to the water? Scientists of an older generation would have answered, "Instinct...
...grandstand they flashed: Austin Taylor's Whichcee in front, Seabiscuit half a length behind. Rounding into the backstretch, the old trouper kept up with Whichcee's swift pace. Down the long stretch, silhouetted against the purple Sierra Madres, the Biscuit seemed glued to Whichcee's tail. Louder & louder the crowd roared as they seesawed coming into the homestretch-Seabiscuit nosing in front, then falling back, then in front again. Approaching the grandstands, Red Pollard flipped his whip and the Biscuit, in as dramatic a finish as has ever been seen, streaked down the stretch to immortality...
...When cattle are herded across a road in a blackout, lights must be carried fore and aft. A Kentish farmer was recently fined five shillings for driving cows without head and tail lights. Do not (as many did) paint horses and colts to look like zebras-motorists cannot see them any better, foals cannot recognize their own mothers, and go hungry...
...intervals or die. One morning last week a staff assistant saw that the 600-lb. female, which had mated more than a year ago, was having violent contractions of the belly. Other observers gathered rapidly, but it was not until afternoon that the baby began to emerge, tail first...