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Word: feather (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Heil had another feather in his discoverer's cap. Florence, which in recent months has been sending its art treasures to the U.S. for display (TIME, Feb. 7), wanted to borrow the wandering Florentine boy for an exhibition in the Museum of the Bargello this spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wandering Boy | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...report had been "improperly edited," and should never have been put out "with the philosophy that Americans might well look askance at their neighbors." The Army, he said, had no evidence of spying by Stein or Miss Smedley, and it was not a U.S. policy to "tar and feather people without proof." Journalist Smedley said she was grateful, but added: ". . . the retraction rarely catches up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Retreat | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...costing about $15 million. The Q cannot compete, timewise, with the Union Pacific, which has a much shorter route. So Budd shrewdly decided, by use of the Vista Dome, to "sell the breath-taking scenery" of the road's route through the Colorado Rockies and California's Feather River Canyon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Hundred Years | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Comedienne Beatrice Lillie, currently cleaning up on Broadway in Inside U.S.A., got herself all dolled up in a black taffeta maid's uniform complete to feather duster, to sweep up a few laughs at Manhattan's annual March of Dimes fashion show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 14, 1949 | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...class, has been getting almost too heavy for his position lately. Chafee says Rupp's weight-gaining pounds home the need for some more lightweights on the team. But that doesn't mean that Bill Joyner at 121 and Chip Carter at 136 aren't a feather in any coaches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Glad Welcome Awaits Freshmen On Exeter's Mat | 2/12/1949 | See Source »

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