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Word: eggs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Herds of shiny cars weave through the downtown traffic, spin along the wide boulevard around the bay. Filipinos have adopted some other symbols, too: jukeboxes blare U.S. tunes by day and neon signs glow in profusion at night. In the once-gutted Great Eastern Hotel, new robin's-egg-blue elevators shoot up to a cool, spacious ballroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Why Carry a Pistol? | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Such simplicity allows zoologists to do experiments with animals almost as if they were chemical compounds. Professor Tinbergen tells how he bothered a herring gull horribly by putting a red wooden egg in her nest. The shape and size of the egg were correct; they tended to release the gull's incubating reaction. But the red color touched off an attack reaction. The poor confused mother fought an exhausting battle between conflicting drives, until the "sitting drive" dominated long enough to allow her to sit down. She could feel the egg's tender shape beneath her, but could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Not So Smart | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

Professor Tinbergen concludes that breeding sticklebacks do not see their mates as fish of the other sex. The male sees only an egg-distended shape; later he smells fresh eggs. The female sees a flash of red belly; later she feels a prodding. They sense little more of each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Not So Smart | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...Hammocks. Like the accompanying text, the 501 photographs in this book embrace everything under the sun-including whole centuries of kitchen sinks. Looking at one another with some surprise are McCormick harvesters, Roman baths, barber chairs, egg beaters and tricycles. Victorian maidens swing gently in new-fangled hammocks-oblivious of a conveyor-beltful of hogs swinging equally gently toward Swift's and Armour's hams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Shape of Things | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

Dunster and Leverett called it a day after five stanzas of goose-egg ball. Their game will be re-played Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Softball Squad Shuts Out Dudley, 5-0 | 5/13/1948 | See Source »

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