Word: bird
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...annual dual shoot between the Harvard and Yale Freshmen will take place on Soldiers Field on the morning of the Yale game. It will be a 50-bird match between teams of five...
From the very beginning the aim of inventors has been to arise in a machine which is heavier than air. There were two kinds of these machines, one like a bird, with wings to flap, and the other like a kite. The former has turned out to be worthless, but the latter has been developed into the aeroplane. The first attempt to fly in one of these machines was made in 1894 with little success. Not until almost the beginning of this century when Langley, Chanute, and the Wright brothers turned their attention to this invention was anything like success...
...Bird, G. F., Grays...
...Bird, E. C., insurance...
...there are seven vacancies, it has been decided to place in nomination the names of the 14 men who received the highest number of votes in the postal ballot which closed on June 16, as follows: Oliver Ames '86, of North Easton; George Emerson Bird '69, of Portland, Me.; Howard Elliott '81, of St. Paul, Minn.; John Wells Farley '99, of Boston; Russell Green Fessenden '90, of Boston; James Frederick Jackson '73, of Brookline; Joseph Lee '83, of Boston; John Pierpont Morgan, Jr., '89, of New York City; William Lambert Richardson '64, of Boston; Lawrence Eugene Sexton...