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Word: chirping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every day some 50,000 New Yorkers spend a nickel to dial MEridian 7-1212, hear a telephone operator chirp the correct time. This week, to "increase the scope and value" of its services-and to collect an estimated 3,000 nickels a day-the New YorkTelephone Co. opens a new exchange. Dialers will hear a 25-second weather report, recorded on magnetic tape from information supplied at least four times daily by the U. S. Weather Bureau. Phone: WEather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: Fair & Warmer | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...DOMESTICUS OR GRYLLUS NEGLECTUS REQUIRED FOR SPECIAL SONG NUMBER IN NEW LAUREL & HARDY MUSICAL FILM SWISS MISS STOP ALL CALIFORNIA CRICKETS RECORD IN B-FLAT STOP WE NEED ONE IN KEY OF G TO FIT THE VOICE RANGE OF WALTER WOOLF KING STOP IF POSSIBLE SHOULD BE ONE-BEAT CHIRP IN FOUR-FOUR TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 24, 1938 | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

Inmates of the Chicago Industrial Home for Children at Woodstock were convinced last fortnight that a canary was loose somewhere in the building. Day after day they heard it chirp and trill. Day after day they searched for it high & low without success. Then one day the school manager heard the piping behind him, turned and beheld its astonishing source-a small, greyish brown mouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Singing Mouse | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

10th. Lord, these little birds! How early they do rise and chirp and with them all the Tower. So I up too, and awhile to watch the River which so early in the morning is covered with golden mist as beautiful as ever I did sec. Whereupon, very serious, I to read my speech which is cloquent, but I am no great speaker and why I did enter this contest I do not know. "Charm us, orator, till the lion look no longer than the cat!" Fiddlesticks! Already there be too much false charming and not enough truth. But Plato...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/11/1936 | See Source »

...twerp, as Reader Propes should know without dictionary-thumbing, is a small, pretentious, ineffective and unpleasant person whose mode of self-expression falls between a twitter and a chirp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 20, 1936 | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

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