Word: cow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...professors and students of New York University have met on a new field of honor. Their jousting ground is a sheet of paper; their passage of arms the United States mail. Each side propounds question after its own kind, the professors chiefly wanting to know which end of a cow rises first and the students abhirs to discover why tourists visited Montreal before...
...Have to look after my Guernseys, my Rhode Island Reds. My best cow is third in Maine for butter fat. My eggs get record prices...
When he could, McCormick bought out Ogden. He wanted, all by himself, to make all the harvesters in the world. When, in 1871, Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over the lantern and his factory was a mass of embers, McCormick turned to his beautiful young wife and asked if he should rebuild or retire. Nettie Fowler McCormick replied: "Build again at once. I do not want, our boy to grow up in idleness." He rebuilt, bigger than ever. Their boy was Cyrus Hall Jr., then a lad of 12. The next year he had a brother, Harold...
...original plan of Harvard college it faced west, being opposite Massachusetts Hall. The ground behind it, which is now the College Yard, was at that time nothing more than a cow pasture. As the yard grew up, however, and the tendency in new buildings was to face into it, the old entrance to Holden Chapel was changed to the east side...
Folk will pay money to stare at any rarity?whether it is a man who plays exceptional tennis, or a woman who can swallow a snake, or a cow with seven legs. It was inevitable, then, that Vera, Countess Cathcart, being the most prominent woman ever kept out of the country for her turpitude, should either compose or appear in a play. She did both. Last week the play, called Ashes of Love, was produced simultaneously in London and in New York (via Washington...