Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conclusion. In Jackson, Mich., police took a good look at the Leslie High School bus, pronounced it unfit for service: poor tires, defective brakes, loose front left wheel, loose steering mechanism, cracked windshield, no muffler, no emergency brake, no tail pipe, no horn, no first...
...considerable portion of the prewar fleet of ancient jalopies was still on its wheels and able to backfire. But the flivver and all its appurtenances was growing unfashionable-the fox tail, which once flew from every steaming radiator, was now as old-hat as the coonskin...
Radio apparatus on the ground will keep track of every plane. If one falls badly behind schedule, it will be ordered aside into an unoccupied lane before the planes behind it begin treading on its tail...
...year-old patient had a huge tumor that had engulfed his stomach and part of his upper abdomen. Dr. Brunschwig removed: 1) the stomach, 2) half the left lobe of the liver, 3) the body and tail of the pancreas, 4) the spleen, 5) the transverse colon (a section of the large intestine), 6) part of the abdominal wall. Then he connected the esophagus with what was left of the intestinal tract. The patient, left with only part of the intestines to serve as a digestive system, was "quite comfortable" after the operation, "enjoyed his food" (eaten in small, hourly...
...more exact. Nowadays, airplanes in flight send hourly weather reports to the CAA's station WSY in New York. WSY edits the information and broadcasts its essentials at 25-minute intervals to other planes. By merely listening and figuring, a pilot can tell where to find the friendliest tail winds...