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Word: lyre (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wharton found that young koupreys are red, later turn grey. The males later turn jet black. The horns of the cows grow in graceful lyre shape; the bulls' horns spread wider, and they wear them to frazzles by stabbing them fiercely into the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Ox of Cambodia | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

...poetry is probably the best part of the issue, though it is spotty in the extreme. "Continental Lyre," by Clement B. Wood '47, is a lively and clever account of the tribulations of the traveller in Europe, it probably contains the least-force humor of the issue. David McCord's dissertation on Kieller's Marmalade and Nathaniel Frothingham's wistful complaint about Governor Dever's Great New Highway System are pleasant if you happen to be interested in marmalade or roads at the time, but both drag terribly on route...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: On the Shelf | 4/28/1951 | See Source »

...magazine, to have been called either "The Moon" or "The Lute and Lyre," was to have resembled "Punch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ad-less Literary Magazine Plans April Publication | 3/23/1951 | See Source »

...Geneva last week, the U.N. Trusteeship Council took up the case of Ruanda-Urundi's 1,000,000 sleek, lyre-horned cattle, which were doing much too well for the good of the land's 3,800,000 people. A report on the Belgian administration of the Central African trust territory had revealed that the cattle were crowding the humans for living space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUANDA-URUNDI: Two Cows in Every Pasture | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

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