Word: tack
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...youngsters find their lost dogs and cats. He has bought "yoyo" tops for hundreds of Panhandle children. During last month's tree-sitting epidemic he gave money rewards to small boys who would come down from their perches, to safeguard their health. He revels in the nickname "Old Tack," derived from his daily irascible column "The Tactless Texan...
...George Nichols' syndicate, white and bronze, No. i; and the old boats, Gerard Barnes Lambert's Vanitie, and E. Walter Clark's Resolute, both sailed by their owners. There was only one interesting moment-the comparison between Enterprise and Whrlwind on the second tack, the first pointing closer into the wind but Whirlwind showing a fuller mainsail. Enterprise had slipped away in the low breeze like a bird and, running far in the lead, hung over her taffrail in mockery her harbor sign, "Please Keep Astern." She beat Vanitie by 6 min. 29 sec.; the rest trailed...
Prior to last week health officials had thought that contact with infected parrots was necessary to contract parrot fever. To explain the fact that three of the stricken researchers had not been within 30 ft. of a dead parrot, it was necessary to go off on a new tack. The new tack: parrot fever is extremely contagious...
...Mount Morris, N. Y., a joker put a tack on the chair of Angelina Ceronit, who sat on the tack, squeaked, contracted blood poisoning, died...
...iron tack were put near a mountain of pure iron, the tack would weigh more than it did before. This scientific conditional relative known as "induced mass," Author Taine has made the basis for a hair-raising yarn of an African primeval god, a subterranean mass of meteoric metal whose emanations corrupt the souls of men and change their bodies; the startling adventures among a tribe of degenerated human beings of three sane Chicago scientists and their pretty secretary. The Iron Star is unusual among thrillers not only in its subject-matter but in the skeptical and light-hearted...