Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often been deemed, especially by men who held it, a job fit only for a nonentity. It was called "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived" (John Adams, the first Vice President), "a fifth wheel to the coach" (Theodore Roosevelt), "as useful as a cow's fifth teat" (Harry Truman), and not worth a "pitcher of warm spit" (John Nance Garner...
...Bossy cow cow Honey bee bee Oleomargarine oleobutterine Alfalfa...
...Only a cow college could boast a cheer like that, and only the University of California could boast a cow college like Davis. Northernmost of Cal's nine campuses, Davis is the M.I.T. of California agriculture...
Space to Think. Davis is not about to drop its super-cow-college learning. Foreign students (a high 10% of enrollment) are there mainly for that purpose. California's $3 billion-a-year farm industry still needs trained talent. But Davis now has more than twice as many liberal arts students as regular aggies. Engineering enrollment has jumped 48% in the past year. Like all Cal campuses, Davis takes only the top 12% of California high school students (out-of-staters need a B+ average). One result: a new Phi Beta Kappa chapter. Another: Cal President Clark Kerr...
...Deep People." Tech girls have problems. "You feel like a cow at auction," says one. "You have to walk a mile to find a ladies' room," says another. But over the years they have made a virtue of their small numbers. "We're a powerful minority," says 19-year-old Sue Colodny. The only girl in a class gets plenty of professorial attention. "Every activity on campus wants girls," gloats one of them, and a freshman reports that getting a date required only the merest smile. "It's wild," she says...