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Word: fowle (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Konrad Z. Lorenz, the other member of the party, who claims: "I can do it myself." In a new book called King Solomon's Ring (Crowell; $3.50), Dr. Lorenz tells how he developed even greater intimacy than that with which King Solomon "spake also of beasts and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Patient Naturalist | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

...canvas of Hambletonian, after the horse's last triumphant win at Newmarket. Seven years later Stubbs died; his final ambitious project, half finished at his death, was to have been 30 anatomical tables contrasting the structure of the human body with that of the tiger and the fowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Paddock Portraitist | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

...eagerly around to watch Titoist Levi meet the Red reporters covering the truce talks. The Reds eyed Levi coldly. Said Chu Chi Ping, a Chinese reporter, to Americans: "I enjoy talking to you. I know who you are and where you stand. But this man is neither fish nor fowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Domesticated Communist | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

Perhaps the U.S. in 1951 had too much fowl, too little exercise of arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Fowl v. Arms | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...Vienna; the whale is no fish but a warm-blooded mammal-hence forbidden. When the question was put to the Vatican, officials of the Holy Office deliberated long & hard. Last week came the answer: on Fridays and other abstinence days Catholics must abstain from "beasts of the fields and fowl of the air." Underwater creatures-even if they come up for air, or occasionally come ashore for a brief siesta-count as fish. Whale meat on Friday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Whale Meat on Friday | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

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