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Word: birde (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this bit once--this eight to midnight grind with weekends off. So on Friday you tie one on and talk about it for a week and call it excitement. Big thrill! It's a cream-puff world with less kicks than a bird-bath swim, and you make it a shell game and like...

Author: By John B. Radner, | Title: Just Passing Through | 5/20/1958 | See Source »

...disguised themselves as bottles of "home brew," in memorium, so to speak. The focus of interest had shifted slightly by 1937, and some alumni, dressed in Bavarian costumes, paraded with posters announcing they had "A Code in our Heads," or simply stating that the "Blue Eagle is a Yale Bird...

Author: By Edmund B. Games jr., | Title: Confetti Battles in Harvard Stadium | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...family income, even after taxes, is at an alltime high of $5,300, is expected to pass $7,000 by 1975, and individual savings are at a record level of $340 billion. Among the ads: the picture of a stork perched on its nest to illustrate population growth ("This Bird Means Business"), a shot of a homeowner on the site of his new house ("There's a New Wave of Opportunity Coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Psychological Warfare | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

Competence Is No Excuse. In Kent County, Md., Goose Hunter Charles L. Ivens had one bird already in his bag, fired at another, brought down two geese at once, was arrested and fined in a federal court for exceeding the day's statutory limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 14, 1958 | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...Bird. In Deep River, Conn., Ronald G. Hagg, found guilty of swerving his car to kill a pheasant, was fined $50 for 1) using a motor vehicle in hunting, 2) hunting out of season, 3) hunting on Sunday, 4) driving on the wrong side of the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 14, 1958 | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

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