Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night and cried. . . . Nursy or mother might have thought baby had a stomach ache and given it peppermint tea, but we know that it was fear that awakened1 baby, and only love destroys fear. . . . What a stretch of the imagination-asking a child to believe that a heavy mooley cow could jump over the moon! Think of a kitty playing a fiddle and then try to convince the child that a dish could run away with a spoon. . . . Thus the children's sweet faith was lessened and they were made to doubt and distrust. . . . Mother Goose was indeed...
...Widow, the Pennsylvania Punch Bowl, the Princeton Tiger; the Hamilton College Royal Gaboon, the Pitt Panther, the Lehigh Burr, the Columbia Jester, the Rutgers Chanticleer, the Johns Hopkins Black and Blue Jay, the Carnegie Tech Puppet, the New York University Medley, the Boston University Bean Pot, the Williams Purple Cow, the Middlebury Baboon, the Amherst Lord Jeff, the Wesleyan Wasp, the Lafayette Liar and the Stevens Stone Mill...
...unbowed by them, strong as an ox, hard as a rock. In 60 odd years as a husbandman, Boryna had buried two wives; but the death of his second left him not averse to yet another union particularly as things were not going well on his land. His favorite cow died. His children, married and single, were ever on the watch for what they could...
...Yakuts were once great breeders of horses and were known largely for this achievement. Their horses far surpassed those of any neighboring tribe, both in quality and in numbers. The horse even took the place of the cow, and one of the main foods of the people, as well as their principle drink, was made from kumiss, or mare's milk...
...Delhi, British India, Mohammedans persisted in carrying cows for sacrifice through the district inhabited by citizens of the Hindu persuasion, in whose eyes the cow, and all that appertains to the cow, is sacred. The Hindus fell upon the Mohammedans, killed 6, wounded...