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Word: cage (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which, removed after 15 minutes, left the passage free. The patient then ate raw chopped beef and milk and egg without difficulty. So well did the dog come to realize her plight and her need of assistance, that when feeding time came and she was let out of her cage, she ran at once to the operating table and jumped up, standing quietly for the insertion of the catheter which would permit her taking food. The tissues are regaining normality but it will be six months before the injury is entirely repaired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 20, 1927 | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

...feather go off in a corner and flock alone by itself? But he is a very strong Tiger and very, very fierce, and his claws are sharp, and they make very astonishing cuts in the wood. But perhaps the Tiger is only sharpening his claws. Who will cage this Tiger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appearance of "Tiger" in 1882 Made Lampy Quake in His Roomy Boots--Princeton Periodical Early Showed Promise | 6/8/1927 | See Source »

...Berlin, Captain Schneider, bold keeper of the Zoo, with a bucket in one hand, approached a matronly lioness named "Italy," squeezed rhythmically, left her cage with his bucket half full of lioness milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Boy | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

...military judges, sitting in stiff gold braid upon the bench beheld a wiry, dynamic little prisoner who rattled the bars of his iron cage,* and hurled lightnings of defiance. "What more do you want? What more do you want?" he shouted as the presiding judge strove to compel at least an orderly confession. It was useless. Signor Zaniboni was not to be suppressed by an iron cage, much less by a gold-braided judge. Reporters gasped at his daring and wrote with racing pencils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Caged Bravo | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...Golden Gate Park Zoo, San Francisco, one Percy Hayes, 17, visitor from Stockton, Calif., ignored the warning signs on the cinnamon bear cage and poked his face up to the bars better to watch the beasts eat the lump sugar that he was tossing them. One bear nabbed the boy and inquisitively pawed his face. Two dirty claws pierced his eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Brakeman | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

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