Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that every summer school in the country is exactly alike. If you go to Harvard summer school, you"ll take boring courses and sweat like a pig in Cambridge. If you go to Cornell, you"ll take boring courses and sweat like a cow in Ithaca...
...confirm how many genes there are in a human cell. A call to the Time Inc. library promptly produced the answer: approximately 100,000. Unearthing such arcana is routine for the library's research staff. In recent months, it has been asked the gestation period of a cow (284 days), whether identical twins have the same fingerprints (no), the height of the Venus de Milo (6 ft. 8 in.) and whether worms swim (yes). Sometimes a straightforward answer does not drive home the desired point, and the library prepares a more creative reply. For a story on the skyrocketing...
Although the NLRB decided this case in 1977, its description of the student-teacher relationship has not applied since the days when the Boylston Professor of English exercised his right to graze a cow in the Yard...
...anyone who knows the concrete reality of the Hindu religion--the disastrous consequences of the cult of the cow, advocated even by Gandhi, of the caste system impossible to break down by any legislation, of the shocking superstition and so on--cannot regard things as equal, and it may perhaps dawn upon him up to a point what Christian faith can mean for men by way of enlightenment and liberation...
...Kung honestly believe that by showing us what he arrogantly considers the "disastrous consequences" of other religions, he will convince us of the righteous claim of the Christian God? Are the consequences of the cult of the cow any more disastrous than the consequences of Christian Crusader zeal? This can hardly be a "rational" proof for the existence...