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Word: fowls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crisp, sunny day Frenchmen last week reluctantly adopted their 14th Constitution-a tripartite compromise draft neither rightist fish nor leftist fowl-rather than heed the adamantine voice of General Charles de Gaulle. Final score: 9,126,370-to-8,043,366 (complete except for a few overseas votes). Explained a Paris shopkeeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: A Reluctant Yes | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...much does a rooster's success depend on his social position? At Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Alphaeus M. Guhl and Don C. Warren, fowl scientists, sought the answer to this question, financially important to poultrymen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Peck & Peck | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...TIME warns Sweden's lepo-ornithol-ogists not to boo too loudly, reminds them that Indiana's fur-fowl is known to lay only sterile eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 20, 1946 | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...purely magic masks were past history. The Museum's leopard-like Devil .Dancer (see cut) resembles some still in use in Ceylon. And the Eskimo King of the Salmon (see cut), a driftwood disc which looked like neither fish, flesh nor fowl, was but one face of a still-living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: False Faces | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...Ibisites whipped down to the Opera House to grab their namesake. Just as they arrived, one dozen strong, the bird appeared for an instant at the portals of the theatre. Rearing back at the night of the men who had been its master for 63 years, the feathered fowl fied back through the doors and vanished once again

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poonsters Post Reward for Vanished Ibis as Harlow Refutes Heron Fake After Night of Magic, Mystery | 5/4/1946 | See Source »

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