Word: bird
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvey Brooks's A Little Bird Told Me was No. i on the hit parade...
...Story of San Michele (named for his house on the Isle of Capri); in Stockholm's Royal Palace, where he had been a house guest since 1943. Munthe's gossipy autobiography earned $500,000, which he gave to charity for the establishment of wildlife refuges and a bird sanctuary on his beloved Capri...
...workmen have gotten a good look at the inside of the new hall during the day. One Cliffedweller, however, has minutely inspected the outside. She shinned up the scaffolding to the roof, took a long bird's eye view of Moors, and climbel down again...
Ponzi's biggest one-day take had topped $2,000,000 when the Boston Post finally exposed him for what he was : an ex-convict and a confidence man who had borrowed from 40,000 Peters to pay early-bird Pauls. This time the mob that stormed Ponzi's office shouted: "Kill...
...airplane will also stall when it flies too slowly. Birds, like planes, are equipped with "flaps": movable sections which can be protruded from the trailing edges of the wings. When slowing down for a landing, birds often spread their tails at a proper angle of attack. The tail acts exactly like airplane flaps, providing extra lift and keeping the bird from stalling...