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Word: currants (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pictures' cumulative effect makes the book exciting. The wild turkey, giant among U. S. birds, struts proudly across Page 1; the duck hawk drools blood in a savage excess of appetite; a little mockingbird cries defiance into the gaping mouth of a rattlesnake; midget warblers perch in a currant bush; the white-bellied booby stares; a least bittern chants in a voice "like a mourning dove imitating a pied-billed grebe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Birds of America | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

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