Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time that the impression the bast i that Far-Western schools are merely a flock cow colleges populated by a bunch of ignorant hayseeds who can do nothing but play football...
This the Great Northern R. R. did last week. If a corporation can be sorry, Great Northern must be sad to see President Ralph Budd go (he sails June i for Mos cow). He knows every part of his com pany, has tended it tenderly. Indeed the announcement at Chicago read: "The invitation to go to Russia was extended to Mr. Budd by the Soviet Government be cause the topography of the Great North ern Railway is said to greatly resemble that over which many Russian railroads...
Alexander Pope was born in London, 1688, of fairly well-to-do elderly parents. A delicate child, he was set upon by a cow when he was three; this accident, says Biographer Sitwell, may have resulted in his subsequent deformity. As a grown man he could not dress himself, had to wear a stiff corset when he walked, supported himself with a cane. Precocious rhymester, ambitious poet, he intended to be not only great but "correct." At 25 he was one of the foremost literary men in England, received £5,000 or £6,000 for his translation...
...Cows weigh about 80 Ibs. Not longer than 48 hours after arriving at the Pribilofs, each gives birth to a pup. Two weeks later the cow seals desert their progeny, returning at ever-lengthening periods to feed them, investigate their growth, teach them how to swim. Their rookeries are situated along the shore or a little inland among the barren rocks...
...long guard hair is blue for two inches closest to the body, black for the next half inch, white the outside half-inch and tipped with black. Dalton's foxes were fed on horsemeat, bread and milk, with occasional young calves. Modern ranch-bred silver foxes are fed cow's milk, with cream added for fat content when first weaned. Soon afterward they get eggs, liver, tripe or heart. Adult foxes are permitted to gobble whole meat, shredded wheat, fish, orange juice, tomato juice, turnips, spinach, porridge, cod-liver oil and yeast...