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...notes, once as rare in Japan as a $100 bill in the U.S. Half-yen notes are used as nose-wipers. A group of men spent 35,000 yen on a night's spree at the seaside resort of Atami, taking care to bring their own slaughtered cow for food. Five pounds of black-market rice would fetch 5,000 to 7,000 yen (official price...
...fifth floor, combatants were shepherded into a long, wide column. Thirty store detectives patrolled its edges, like cow hands riding herd on the old Chisholm Trail, eyes alert for mavericks. The column wound through vistas of antique furniture and past paintings of cows grazing in sylvan scenes. Once customers sighted the nylon counters, they found themselves in a maze of waist-high fences. To get out they had to make nine turns, pass through ten narrow aisles...
...they eat up all the cows, so you have to kill them. . . . There's a cow on this boat, did you know that...
...year 1880, and spring has come to Willowspring, Pa. (pop. 4,000). "The sun, like an eager lover with searching fingers, [runs] penetrating rays into every crevice. . . ." Slowly "the earth yields [with] a sweet resistlessness . . . like the ultimate surrender of a virgin. Hens fly every which way. ... A cow moos and a bull . . . bawls. . . . Lillian sits under a great sugar maple, wondering...
Harvard, like Boston, was founded on towpaths and since the average Harvard-man's mentality has little in common with a cow, he may have some difficulty in finding his bearings. But map in hand, and with a few pointers in his head, the newcomer will, in the space of a couple of months, have memorized the ins and guts of his surroundings fairly well...