Word: finches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impassioned speech, Rep. Robert S. Monahan yesterday nominated the purple finch, Carpodacus purpureus, for New Hampshire's state bird, urging the Legislature to snatch the bird before some more enterprising state grabs...
Locally, opinion seemed to favor the move. James C. Greenway, Harvard Curator of Birds, commented, "People here like to feed birds," and the purple finch is a "pretty bird," an "intimate thing for people to see at their feeding stations...
This evening, CBS television interviewed two undergraduates, Father Halton, and Jeremiah S. Finch, Dean of the College, on its nationally-broadcast Douglas news program. Dean Finch said that Princeton had seen speakers come and go, and that if students "cannot be safely permitted to hear speakers the University might as well go out of the business of education...
ROBERT L. FINCH President and Top Crust Apple Pie Testers Association Columbus, Ohio
That wretched Mrs. Chirk, she had forgotten her name again! Once it had really been Finch, but after what seemed a lifetime of being miscalled "Chirk" in National Health Service waiting rooms "Chirk" stuck. Not for long, though. "Poor soul," says one character about her, "I wonder when she last knew herself." "Probably never," replies another. "One would probably have to go back to her grandfather to find an identity that really made an impression...