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Word: bitches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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North. Two years ago last week volatile, voluble General Umberto Nobile of Italy, accompanied by his fox terrier bitch Titina; sturdy, silent Roald Amundsen of Norway; able, adventurous Lincoln Ellsworth of the U. S. flew in the dirigible Norge over the North Pole. Seventy-one freezing hours of flight cooled the entente cordiale between the Italian and his companions. Last week the Italian took off from Kings Bay, Spitsbergen, accompanied almost entirely by Italian scientists and an Italian crew, in the dirigible Italia, to explore the unknown regions around the North Pole for the glory of Mussolini and his Fatherland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Polar Pilgrims: May 28, 1928 | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...enormous heavily boned circus giant. Dr. Charles Rupert Stockard of Cornell University Medical College experimented with some of these pure blooded deformities. Crossing a famous Great Dane sire with a noted St. Bernard he found that all the pups of the several litters died within 30 hours, although both bitch and sire were parents of previous prize winners. Autopsies on the litters revealed diseased kidneys throughout; the external sex organs of the male pups seemed normal but the internal sex organs were definitely female in type, showing that the pituitary gland has a profound influence on sex development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Washington | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...Volpone is fox in Italian: the names of all the important characters in the play are Italian words. Mosca means gadfly: Canina (a prostitute who tries to marry Volpone) is bitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 23, 1928 | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

Beautiful Bitch. Talavera Margaret, beady-eyed, wire-haired foxterrier, was judged the best dog of 2,410 benched at the Westminster Kennel Club show in New York two weeks ago. Last week in Boston, Talavara Margaret was beaten in her own class by a beautiful little wire-haired foxterrier bitch, Stockmoor Story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dogs | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...Brooklyn, from the Kings County Hospital, Joan, a police-bitch, the property of a doctor, ran away or was stolen by a motorist. Boys and girls in the children's ward of the hospital moaned with grief. Having escaped from her abductor, or having decided of her own will to return to the Kings County Hospital, Joan fell through the ice into a pond on her way home. A policeman, attracted by her noise, pulled Joan out of the ice and returned her to the bedridden children, who were delighted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Putting on the Dog | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

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