Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presiding at the first Commencement, according to the dignified rites of his mother university. This completion of the building was no small feat, for Dunster had not been in office a year when a severe economic crisis struck New England. "Corn would buy nothing", wrote Governor Winthrop. "A cow which cost last year 20 pounds might now be bought for four or five pounds; then, too, many people have gone out of the country, as no man could pay his debts." The more active members of the Board of Overseers returned to England. But for the energetic leadership of Dunster...
...sows are a hen, three hens are a hare, two hares are a wolfhound, and two wolfhounds are a cow...
Shilling 24? Cow...
...Creation: or, A Compendium of Natural Philosophy. But he did not altogether desert superstition for science: among the 725 prescriptions for 243 diseases listed in his Primitive Physick: or, An Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases is the remedy for "a consumption"-"take a cow-heel from the Tripe-house ready drest . . . two ounces of Isinglass . . . Sugar-candy ... set them in the oven after the bread is drawn . . . let the Patient live on this...
...Cow counters last week announced that there were 23,000,000 milk cows in the U. S. Roy C. Potts, of the Department of Agriculture, said each U. S. inhabitant drinks an average of 1½ lbs. of milk per day; consumes another 1½ lbs. in butter, cheese and bread...