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Word: birching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chrome and glass marquee, celebrities swarmed one night this week to the opening of Manhattan's new $300,000 French movie theater, the Paris. They had paid $12.50 a head to look at one another and a movie (La Symphonic Pastorale), test the comfort of the 571 natural-birch seats, and sip coffee and bouillon in the lounge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Feathers for Path | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

When the northbound traveler invades the six million square miles of the Arctic Circle, he soon leaves the great timberlands behind and enters a region where the last, sparse outposts of birch, spruce and cottonwood gradually fade into the boundless levels of the tundra. Here is the world which "knows but two seasons: winter and August"; here great rivers of North America and Asia drain away and congeal into the titanic ice-blocks of the Arctic Ocean; here (and not at the North Pole) the thermometer has touched its recorded lowest (93° below zero) and the milk of Siberia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out in the Cold | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...Ringwood, County Hampshire, England, a blear-eyed Friesian cow named Bridge Birch yielded 41,952 pounds of milk in 329 days to displace (unofficially) an American Holstein, Carnation Ormsby Madcap Fayne, as world champion. Bridge Birch's owner admitted that his cow got a daily diet-booster of half a gallon of stout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORA & FAUNA: Stooges | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...billowing fire raced through tall stands of spruce, pine, oak and birch, cut westward across the brow of thickly timbered Mackenzie Mountain until it reached the little fishing hamlet of Pleasant Bay. Some of the 250 villagers escaped along famed Cabot Trail. Fishing boats, summoned before communications were cut, saved the rest. But Pleasant Bay's homes and shops, a church and hospital were ashes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NOVA SCOTIA: The Big Burn | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...provoked an epic battle which cut through religious, political and even family lines. So did the argument as to whether the turn of the century came on Jan. 1, 1900 or Jan. 1, 1901. Another question that provoked a fist fight: Can salmon best be grilled over birch or willow coals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Those Were the Days | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

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