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Word: kiwis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ceaseless air experimenter: in 1929 he made the first complete blind flight. A second lieutenant in World War I, he chafed at being kept at San Diego as an instructor. He was an early member of the Quiet Birdmen, the group of flyers who set themselves apart from the kiwi, an almost, extinct flightless bird, and from the "modock," legendary aviation term for a "bird that flies backwards to keep the dust out of its eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heroes: Jimmy Did It | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...parade of international politics. Zoomen plan to send aggressive collectors to Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, fight for ark space on banana-boat decks, show zoogoers the fauna of their Good Neighbors. Jennings is hoping that British Empire good will will bring in rare koalas from Australia, wingless kiwi birds from New Zealand (both are now legally barred from export...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bottleneck in Giraffes | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

Under Transport, headed Kiwi (TIME, July 31) you wrote a story about British Subject Charles Grey Grey, editor for 28 years of the British aviation magazine The Aeroplane. Isn't the accompanying photograph (captioned "Charles Grey Grey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 5, 1940 | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

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