Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cow Speed Sirs: Your account of Professor Bohr's application of Professor Werner Heisenberg's concept of uncertainty to "everyday existence, where an inch is an inch, and a gallon is a gallon" (TIME, July 3, p. 40) recalled to mind an entertaining bit og testimony given in a lawsuit in which my father was counsel for one of the litigants. The case involved an automobile collision. Immediately before the collision, one of the automobiles had struck a cow; and during the trial it became important for the plaintiff to bring out the speed with which this cow...
...fast was the cow moving...
...yellow wooden building at the corner of the Yard next to Lehman Hall) to about the middle of University Hall and including an extension to "Charlestown Road", (Kirkland Street), covering the site of Holworthy and Stoughton. It was not until 1835, however, after a long-career as a cow-pasture and wheat field that the Yard attained its present dimensions. The term "Campus," heard with revolting frequency by visitors to Cambridge who are not "in-the-know" was a classical affectation introduced at Princeton during the American Revolution, and which gradually spread to other colleges...
Prize picture in the pamphlet was that of Brooklyn's benign, blue-eyed Boss John H. ("For Success") McCooey milking a cow. Its caption: "A jolly family man from Brooklyn who loves milking." It was taken ten years ago when Boss McCooey participated in a milking contest for the benefit of the Brooklyn Tuberculosis Association. When ''Farmer John" McCooey was shown the pamphlet, he let out a disarming chuckle: ''Why shouldn't the school children have this book? It would prove an inspiration to them to see how the Democratic leaders Lave succeeded . . . (thumbing...
...other University can compare with those of the students of the University of Havana who. without exception, are willing to die for the ideals of their Alma Mater: and hundreds of them have already sacrificed their lives upon her altars, while America looks on like a painted cow through a painted gate...