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Word: mewing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 »

...whose brother runs the prominent literary agency of Brandt & Brandt) string includes many younger male fictioneers whom he, like Graeme Lorimer, has a knack of developing. Red of face and hair, Associate Editor Martin Sommers, who spills out topical information like a teletype, applies news sense developed on the Mew York News to conceiving and abetting articles on sport and politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Inheritors' Year | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...mew the great Niagara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Oh! How Much of Sorrow! | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

Though Crimson totter, moo, cows, mew...

Author: By L. P. Jr., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/10/1935 | See Source »

...Western Reserve University's anthropologically minded anatomist, marches in with calipers and measuring tape. She measures the baby from head to foot- feet, shins, thighs; hands, forearms, arms; feet to crest of head, rump to top of head; breadth and depth of head. The baby may wriggle and mew but willy-nilly he is one more mannikin in a long, laborious, illuminating research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICINE: How Children Grow | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

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