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Word: nesting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promise is a sacred thing. There was talk in the cloakrooms that if Joe Robinson were not appointed, no one else would be confirmed. If this was a bit fantastic, there remained the likelihood that by failure to appoint Joe Robinson, the President would stir up a bigger nest of hornets than he had by his Supreme Court bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Justice Retired | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...being revived by his buddy, Fred (Spencer Tracy). At the front, equipped with a high-powered rifle and good eyesight, Jimmy's attitude changes. When luck puts him in a church steeple with a perfect chance to pick off five members of a German machine-gun nest, he murmurs, "What a dish!'' and bowls them over like clay ducks in a shooting gallery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 24, 1937 | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...connection with the folio, the exhibit illustrates the famous controversy Audubon aroused as to whether rattlesnakes climb trees. The artist portrayed four meeking birds battling a rattlesnake for possession of the birds' nest and eggs. Immediately the picture was challenged as scientifically inaccurate. In a letter Audubon wrote his wife in 1831, "Know ye all men that Rattlesnake do clime trees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Audubon Correspondence, "Elephant Folio," Bird Engravings Now on Exhibition in Widener | 5/14/1937 | See Source »

...Artists) starts by making the point that one girl in a hundred thousand who go to Hollywood to be stars becomes one. It then examines the career of the exception-Esther Victoria Blodgett (Janet Gaynor) who, the day she arrives on the Coast, financed by her grandmother's nest egg, tiptoes into the outer lobby of Grauman's Chinese Theatre and stands tremulously in the cement footprints of her favorite actor, Norman Maine. From this point on, the story of A Star Is Born does not differ in superficial outline from the story that has been told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 3, 1937 | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

What had roused the warden were reports sent down from central Idaho's wild Salmon River and Sawtooth Mountain country. One hunter wrote that he had found a dozen sets of lambs' feet in one golden eagle's nest, three sets of goats' feet in another, seen eagles kill a 2-year- old mule deer. For years Idaho has paid a $1 bounty on golden eagles. Now Warden Eckert ordered his predator exterminators to begin a systematic campaign against them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Eagle Thinning | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

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