Word: chicken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...champion, Air Pilot, whose own sire, Muscle Shoals Jake, had also won at Grand Junction, Air Pilot Sam has taken seven major stakes this season, including the U. S. All-Age at Holly Springs, Miss. last month, the National Free-For-All Championship and Canada's Saskatchewan Prairie Chicken Trials and Dominion Championship. Sam showed his mettle at Grand Junction last year. During an exercise run for the benefit of MARCH OF TIME cameramen, he collided with a pack of darky dogs in pursuit of a rabbit, was ganged, had a collie's fang sunk clear through...
...Quarantinable diseases which prevent radio pratique are: cholera, leprosy, yellow fever, anthrax, typhus fever, smallpox, plague (bubonic, pneumonic or septicemic), parrot fever. In addition to those diseases, in which the Government has special interest, New York City will prevent radio pratique if a ship harbors chicken pox, diphtheria, dysentery (amebic or bacillary), epidemic encephalitis, German measles, measles, meningococcus meningitis, mumps, paratyphoid fever, infantile paralysis, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, or whooping cough. Only ships regularly in the following services may use radio pratique: between New York and European ports, between East and West coasts...
...seemed enough like spring to stimulate prodigious, pre-seasonal laying. Not long after Christmas farmers found themselves with more pails of fresh eggs than they could sell. Early last month the New York egg market was glutted, wholesale prices were abnormally low, farmers were beginning to reduce chicken feed and to slaughter too-productive pullets. Meanwhile the great chain grocery stores which sell New Yorkers about one billion eggs a year were making about 11? a dozen on the spread between wholesale and retail prices. Upon this scene moved Surplus Commodities Corp. To strengthen the wholesale market it recommended...
...lived in Australia three years and have seen five koalas. Four that lived in a chicken coop in a backyard in Melbourne and one wild one. The wild one cried and when given some leaves to eat wanted to play. I gave it a finger and it bit me as hard as a newborn lamb can bite...
Aside from the Oxonian reference to Mrs. Simpson as "chicken a la king" and to her residence, as the King's Arms, undergraduates seriously oppose her, not because she is an American or a commoner but because they refuse to have a "King's favorite" as queen. This is the core of the opposition...