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Word: featherless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like birds, Harvard protesters like nothing more than to flock together. Those featherless campus aviants like the sunshine...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Divesting of Divestment | 11/19/1987 | See Source »

...bemused modern reader, John Ruskin is yet another long-gone marvel, a species of featherless biped now extinct. This rare bird, born in 1819, was a gentleman of means and an amateur of genius, whose leisurely travels to Italy and Switzerland resulted in a vast outpouring of noblesse oblige: Sesame and Lilies and Seven Lamps of Architecture and some 30 other volumes instructing his countrymen on how to think about art, man and socialism. His writing now seems overabundant; but in an age when color photography and its reproduction in books were lacking, there was a reason for his word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stones of Ruskin | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

...like to sleep on that," I told Featherless. "Good night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: I'm a Cardless Person | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

...Nonsense," Featherless said severely. "We could do better by making them happy. Suppose that instead of punishing Exxon, Mobil and Shell, we rewarded them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: I'm a Cardless Person | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

...that I can see," said Featherless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: I'm a Cardless Person | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

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