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Word: tails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Varsity polo team meets Yale this afternoon on the Eli home field. The team, composed of Jack Lewis at 1. Winny White at two, and Gay Dillingham at the tail position, goes to Yale with a good season's record, and according to Major Sargent, an advantage in power if it is in form...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Malletmen Meet Eli Polo Team at New Haven | 2/24/1940 | See Source »

...anything they had ever seen, faded to a dot against the sky before the thunder of its exhaust had echoed off the hangar walls. And when it came home to roost, at the hangar of Bell Aircraft Corp., it waddled up to the apron on three wheels with its tail in the air, something no pursuit ship had ever done before. More mindful of its deadly speed, its paralyzing armament, than of its spraddle-legged look on the ground, proud Bell Aircraft called it "Airacobra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Airacobra | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

Looking very much like a man who had not one but two bears by the tail, Dean Russell tried in vain to mollify Horace Mann's parents by offering to establish part of his new merged school in Horace Mann's building, part in Lincoln...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Murder! | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

There isn't a great, deal that can be said for the twelve other solous who gave their considered approval and dragged after Mickey like the tail after a kite. One can laugh at Mickey because he has his points, but in the face of the rest one can only wilt and wonder. Professor Chafee over at the Law School summed up the whole case when he stated: "This is the best argument offered thus far for Plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ST. PETERSBURG AND THE DEVIL | 1/5/1940 | See Source »

...Henderson. Competitive bidding, said he, would be discussed later. Harold Stanley persisted, for well he knew that when TNEC gets into competitive bidding, such insurgents as Cyrus Eaton and Alleghany Corp.'s unruly Bob Young may get the first say, put Morgan Stanley & Co. on the defensive with tail-end statements in news stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECURITIES: Stanley's Four-Bagger | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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