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Word: fairfielders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unmarried females." He was a tall, dashing, 40-year-old Back Bay Bostonian (real name he withheld from the police) and he was accused of having turned his correspondence with intellectual females into courtships, his courtships into loans to pay off a mortgage on a nonexistent warehouse in Fairfield, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Too Personal | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

Leon A. Danco, Jr., of Matthews Hall, Roger Ludlowe High, and Fairfield, Connecticut...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Select Ten Committee Members For Stag Smoker and Jubilee in Spring | 2/27/1941 | See Source »

...Recording engineers could not work on the spot because R. C. A. recording equipment is on alternating current. Fairfield Osborn's house, like many in Manhattan, has direct current...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Singing Sculpture | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...find something appropriate for this gigantic cuckoo clock to sing, experts combed zoos and aviaries. At the home of Fairfield Osborn, president of the New York Zoological Society, they thought they had found what they wanted: an East Indian bulbul named Greenie, who had been adopted by the bird-loving Osborns as a pet. Greenie was a magnificent singer, with a voice of extraordinary range. But he was so temperamental (he did his best singing in the bathroom while the water was running) that the idea had to be dropped. Engineers compromised on another Osborn pet: a Mexican nightingale (Myadestes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Singing Sculpture | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...Central Falls, R. I. instruments and bottles in the glass cases of an operating room rattled while surgeons were operating. In Nashua, N. H. a church's stained-glass windows were broken. In Weymouth, Mass, an automobile rolled off a jack, imprisoned the mechanic beneath it. In Fairfield, Me. a horse fell down. In Rockport, Mass, an astute dachshund named Lieda, thinking a heavy truck was passing, jumped up on a couch to look out the window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Glacial Calling Cards | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

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