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Word: birde (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kirkland has led the other Houses with 25 early vacationers, but the mass exodus will probably not start until tonight. Most students stick it out to the bitter end, however, and will, on Saturday, join their early-bird Yuletide vacationers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 65 From Dean's List Already on Vacations | 12/20/1951 | See Source »

...like an uncoiling spring, the dog dashed for the bird that fell behind him. Gingerly he nuzzled it, rolling the bird a bit so that he could pick it up without crushing it, raced back to his handler and dropped the unruffled pheasant into his outstretched hand. With a nod from his handler, he crashed into the brush and retrieved the second bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Top Dog | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

Panting, the dog paused for a moment. Then he plunged into the icy stream, heading toward the spot where the third bird fell. Head down, he began to range the area. The handler's whistle brought him up short. The retriever looked at his handler for guidance, watched the wave of his arm, and began his ranging again a bit to the left. A moment later he spotted the bird, picked it up, and, head high, breasted the river again to bring it back to his handler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Top Dog | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...sport from his picture window. Oscar was noticed by more than 100 passing hunters. Only two of them asked Farmer Marlow's permission to take a shot at him. The others generally brought their cars to screeching stops and leaped out to blaze away at the stuffed bird. After one hunter nearly shot his companion in his haste to get the bird, Mrs. Marlow made her husband bring Oscar back into the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Urge to Kill | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...whistling for seven years with a Spokane whistling teacher, Mrs. Marjorie Clark Kennedy, to whom whistling is an art, "not a parlor trick." Pat was a conscientious student. Says Mrs. Kennedy: she "could have had a real career in whistling if she'd kept on. She did beautiful bird work; her chirps were sure and fine. She was especially good on the meadow lark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Soprano from Spokane | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

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