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They are written in a kind of perfected prose-a prose stripped of all discursive verbiage and whittled down into functional verse shapes. Thus, of a hen mocking bird engaged in feeding her brood, Poetess Moore writes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry, Mar. 9, 1942 | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

...Order. In Occupied France it was decreed that, if any hen in the Somme failed to lay 50 eggs a year, its owner would be fined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 2, 1942 | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

Service. In Olympia, Wash., Mrs. Mary Guadette learned the Government wanted an egg speedup, hung a sign in her chicken house reading: "Keep 'em frying!'' One hen's answer: an egg that measured 7 in. around the center, 8 in. the long way, and had three yolks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 2, 1942 | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...airplane output could be boosted: honest-to-God freezing of designs. Some planemakers complain that the Army still changes its mind more often than a hen crossing a road. Concentrating on fewer models would also eventually boost output. OPM has a standardization plan in the works, may test it on pursuit-ship output in a few big factories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: 60,000 Planes, Etc. | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

...some time Butch had been skimping his Mayoralty to work at the Office of Civilian Defense. By the same token he was skimping OCD. Even Mr. Roosevelt, according to a persistent report, shared this view, but could think of no painless way of easing LaGuardia out. Meantime hen-shaped Fiorello continued to fly back & forth between Washington and New York, always a little out of breath and red in the face. At a ceremony marking the start of his third Mayoralty term, he flapped his wet wings and exploded with bantam wrath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVILIAN DEFENSE: Hen-yard Pagliaccio | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

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