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Word: birde (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...questions on this test are all of one type. They ask which one of three activities would you prefer. For example, would you rather 1) build bird houses, 2) write articles about birds, or 3) draw sketches of birds...

Author: By I ANTHONY Lukas, | Title: Bureau of Tests Attempts to Find Proper Fields | 5/2/1952 | See Source »

...doesn't have to stray too far from Cambridge to find a place to spend a sunny Sunday afternoon. Medford's Middlesex Fells are fine for bird-watchers and those who just want to walk through the woods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Glories of Spring-And the Fullness Thereof | 5/1/1952 | See Source »

...report that his son was missing in action (TIME, April 14) had hit Van Fleet hard. But at 60, the general shows only a few more grey hairs and wrinkles than he did a year ago. Said one staff officer: "The old boy is still a tough old bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMAND: Tough Old Bird | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

Notes and papers used for occasional serious research are stored behind the gates to prevent possible loss. When one Wilbur F. Henderson of Conway, New Hampshire, donated nine large cases of longhand notes concerning bird migrations and weather changes over a period of 34 years, the notes were locked in the Cage for preservation. Patriotic blurbs and other notes from the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, the papers of the Massachusetts Committee of Public Safety, and a collection of photographs of archaeological items have also found security in the "Inferno" stacks. Poor-paper books and those...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Widener 'Inferno' Guards Choice Collection of Erotica, Miscellany | 4/25/1952 | See Source »

...Gooney Bird" flights are designed not to induce surrenders but to create unrest. By week's end, however, the Communists themselves gave the "Gooney Bird" its biggest pat on the tail. The two girls, known only as Miss L. and Miss C. to the Communists, were officially branded as war criminals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: The Gooney Bird | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

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