Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S timely description of the Sky Tiger by Bell out of Buffalo goes haywire in its second paragraph (TiME, Nov. 15, Transport). The printer's the fall guy (we hope) when he says "two .50 calibre (1½ in.) guns." Calibre is the diameter of the bore between the lands. A ".50 calibre gun" is a ½ in. gun. Incidentally the service says "calibre...
According to Ambassador Kurusu, even a second rebuff should not discourage the Conference from inviting Japan a third time. "When first the warning cry 'Tiger! Tiger!' is heard in an Indian village nobody pays any attention," explained the Ambassador. "The second time perhaps a few natives reach for their swords. But it is the third cry of 'Tiger! Tiger!' which arouses the village...
...their records there is little to choose out on the Business School at 2 o'clock today. Harvard beat Princeton 1-0, while the Tiger consumed the Bull dog 4-1. Yale outshone Harvard against Dartmouth. Yale held Brown as Harvard did. Yale has an airtight defense. Harvard has forward line snipers. But because the Blue has won the past two years, and still has former stars in its lineup it must rule favorite...
When the Mayor jubilantly arrived at City Hall to find his office floor covered with a tiger skin presented by big game-hunting Deputy Police Commissioner Harold Fowler, the landslide had begun to seem even more impressive. Fusion was in control not only of the Mayor's chair and the District Attorney's office, where Tammany underlings promptly began clearing out their desks in anticipation of the sharp-eyed Dewey occupation on January 1, but of practically every important city job. Its first majority in the crucial Board of Estimate was an astounding...
...single experimental super bomber-fighter to the U. S. Army Air Corps last July they dubbed it Airacuda-air for its medium; acuda, from barracuda, that giant warm-ocean pike-like fish noted as a tireless, reckless, vicious killer. To Airacuda Bell Aircraft proudly added a mixed-metaphoric subtitle "Tiger of the Skies." Last week, Army pilots who were testing it at Wright Field, Dayton, found it indeed a "tiger...