Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Calvin Coolidge the day before he left the White House in 1929. It was the stenographic record of his twice-weekly tilting with reporters in press conference.*Sample bout: on Dec. 11, 1928, he outlined-his plans to attend the dedication of the carillon at the Edward Bok bird sanctuary in Florida. To one reporter, unable to understand the plans for the bell tower, Coolidge snapped: "Mr. Bok is giving the bird sanctuary as a tract of land at this place. He is dedicating it as a bird sanctuary, and putting up these bells to interest the birds in music...
...iron bird they were looking for was Pan American World Airways' Constellation Great Republic, New York-bound from Johannesburg. It had made routine stops at Leopoldville, Belgian Congo, and Accra, on the Gold Coast. At Accra, a faulty magneto on the right inboard engine had been repaired. Three and a half hours and nearly 700 miles later, flying through a drizzly night, the plane approached Roberts Field near the Liberian capital of Monrovia. Veteran Pilot Frank Crawford, 38, asked for landing instructions from the tower. He reported trouble with the radio beam on which he was flying-the stronger...
...British Museum of Natural History was in grateful receipt last week of a strange new gift-500,000 Mallophaga, the world's leading collection of bird lice...
...Best Muslin. Over the years, the colonel and his cousin have scoured the world for bird lice, visiting Syria, Africa, India, Arctic Russia, Estonia, Afghanistan, Arabia and Arizona. As soon as pack horses or native bearers arrive with the expedition at the hunting grounds, the colonel strolls out with his shotgun. As each bird bites the dust, he wraps it carefully in many folds of "the best butter muslin." When the bird's body begins to cool, the lice desert it for the muslin. Then the colonel and Theresa unwrap the muslin and shelter the displaced lice in labeled...
Born in Switzerland 49 years ago, Giacometti found his way to Paris early, dabbled for years in surrealism. To earn a living, he made chandeliers, vases, gimcracks, bird cages and doorknobs. "At first you think [commercial work] is easy," he says, "but then you see even that is difficult." Fine art he finds an almost impossible process: "I'm not sure of my vision unless I see it on canvas or in sculpture, but as I put it down I modify my vision...