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Word: bead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bead of my gun right on the guy that was carrying the dog. If he'd made one funny move I'd have got him dead to rights. But he didn't. I figured at the time he was a deputy sheriff." Mildred Davis Lloyd, wife of film Funnyman Harold Lloyd, said: "I hope it's a boy." Expected time: March. Lloyd children to date: Mildred Gloria, 6; Marjorie Elizabeth, 5 (lately adopted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Animals, Jan. 5, 1931 | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

...waddling, brown-black-&-yellowish-white, bead-eyed, strong-toothed, sharp-quilled porcupine of the West (erethizon epixanthum) has been protected for years for the same reason that porcupines are protected in the North and East: it is the one animal of the forest which man, lost in the woods without a firearm, could be sure of killing to escape starvation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Porcupine War | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

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