Search Details

Word: bluejays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...rate, the rusty but aggressive Crimson overcame the obnoxious Hopkins cannon and the rainy weather to bring the score to 6-2 midway through the third period, when they found themselves with a man up, but a Bluejay fast-break goal shattered any upset hopes. The final count was 11-4, with Mike Faught (2), Steve Martin, and Mike Ward providing the Crimson goals...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Laxmen Win One | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

FRED AND CATHY BUSICK, Route 7, Box 18, Burlington, N.C. 27215. I have Bluejay, Robin, Woodpecker, Elks, Baseball, Las Vegas. I want Burmese Cat, 70 Exc., Tombstone, Amvets, Flower Basket, St. Louis Arch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Empties Are Better | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

...thing is: What point? Are the Busicks alerting a bookie to their late-starting favorites at Pimlico? Notifying fellow CIA agents of the terms of a prisoner-exchange operation? Not at all. The message appeared in the monthly publication of the National Jim Beam Bottle and Specialties Club; the Bluejay is a ceramic decanter, as is the St. Louis Arch, and the Busicks themselves are two of the estimated 50,000 Americans currently engaged in what is perhaps the country's fastest-growing hobby-bottle collecting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Empties Are Better | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

...life indestructible and unchanging-unless he changes it. Resting up one fine afternoon recently before a globe-girdling trip, he sat on the terrace of his enchanted house in Bel Air, a fistful of peanuts in his hand. Loudly he whistled again and again for a half-domesticated bluejay named Chairman of the Board. The bird flew away many months ago, but Conrad Hilton still refuses to give up hope that one day it will return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hotels: By Golly! | 7/19/1963 | See Source »

Packaged stereo sets all ready to plug in now come as low as $39.95 for a portable unit (the tone is apt to be as strident as a bluejay's cry), or as high as $2,500. Between the two extremes are dozens of sets in the $100 to $500 range, many of which make for better listening than more expensive monophonic units. Thinking of the already cluttered American living room, manufacturers also offer "self-contained stereo"-units with both speakers housed in a single cabinet. But two-speaker cabinets, unless they are six to eight feet long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Rise of Stereo | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | Next