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Word: hens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pullman's Pride," 3.7-pound White Leghorn hen, went to Washington State Agricultural College, where she learned to eat standard college laying-rations. Last week she laid her 337th egg in 365 days, nearly a world's record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pinkerton Academy | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

Died. Queen Fontana, 5, record-breaking hen, at Fontana, Calif., of natural causes. She had just laid her 1174th egg, as contrasted with the average hen's life capacity of 270 (2 years),* and left 400,000 descendants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 8, 1926 | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...Judge's Husband-Connecticut hen-peckery, with William Hodge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: List | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...trick, but a lady this queen, Roumanian, and very very "picturesque"! She will not set a style in gray hats, she will not play tennis for money, even in Boston--yet she will eat American food and meet whom ever Mayor Walker can collect to make a hen mot worthy the royal tradition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GENTLEMEN, THE QUEEN | 10/13/1926 | See Source »

...Among the first to read Mme. Calvé's protest was William J. Guard, kindly press agent of the Metropolitan, who watches over his flock like a mother hen. He fumed, he fussed, he ruffled his feathers, flapped his great wings, said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Censure | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

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