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Word: kingbirds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...bird of bad moral character, and does not make his living honestly. . . . With all this injustice, he is never a good case, but, like those among I men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor. Besides, he is a rank coward, the little Kingbird, not bigger than a sparrow, attacks him boldly, and drives him from the district...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Kings in Carrion | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

...tour. Pilot Livingston's score was 55,628 points. Honors in the class for single or dual engined cabin planes went to George Haldeman, whose Bellanca Pacemaker, after an early forced landing in Canada, fought its way up to fifth place ahead of the Curtiss Kingbird. Flying across Kansas, Pilot Haldeman tried the cross-country tactics of Lindbergh and Hawks, climbed above 15,000 ft., there found a strong west wind to whisk him into Wichita ahead of his rival. Most telling test of the week occurred between Wyoming and Colorado, when the heavily loaded ships had to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: The Industry | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

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