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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cheers the happy hen With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Beggar's Opera | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...when the Dies Committee began to talk about U. S. youth, found youth organizations mixed up with evil companions, hinted that youth had been out all night with the Reds, could no longer tell right from Red, Mrs. Roosevelt rushed to youth's defense like an outraged mother hen defending her chick's good name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Housekeeper's Week | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Geneva when he learned that The League of Nations possessed something called the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation. When he decided that the Committee showed few signs of intellect and fewer of cooperation, he licked his chops and fell to. In Geneva the committee consists of a single hen-brained Cockney typist, who manages in no time at all to have the whole continent of Europe teetering on the brink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Toronto: Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...great flocks, as they often do, they make a dreadful din. But when performing solo, Sturnus vulgaris is one of the most versatile of all bird mimics. It not only imitates the songs of many birds but also reproduces, with uncanny fidelity, the cackle of a laying hen, the tentative chirps of young robins, the plaint of annoyed guinea fowl, even the mew of a kitten or the whistling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Versatile Sturnus | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Many evacuated children had never before seen a hen, a pig or an apple tree. But they needed scant introduction, soon learned to shinny up apple trees and drop the fruit into caps held by their sisters. Wherever they went-apple-picking, blackberrying or fishing-most of the children still dutifully carried their gas masks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Alarums and Excursions (cont'd) | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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