Word: flock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MacVeagh '24, hero of last year's one-sided encounter, and Robert Lampoon 2B.G., veteran lampoon humorist. But the multitudes of baseball fans who swarmed over Anderson Bridge to the field outside the big oval horseshoe across the Charles were disappointed, for the CRIMSON sluggers found lampoon for a flock of hits in the very first frame, and put the game on lee. MacVeagh was well nigh invulnerabble throughout and but for a number of questionable decisions by Umpire Dube would have pitched a no hit game H. N. Pratt, '24, with an unassisted double play, and a long...
...time, it will doubtless not be long before native heroes of the silver-screen are developed from home talent. In this event Turkish movie addicts will do well to keep their eyes open, lest they fall victims to the same set of stereotypes which rules the American flock good old standbys like the hero of the range, the poor but-honest scullery maid, and the constantly tuxedoed viper who wrecks the home. If all these characters are transplanted, with local adaptations of course, into the original Osmauli, the inhabitanis of old Stamboul will discover themselves westernized with a vengeance...
...guard the flock from wolf...
...gold brooch of the Viking period was scratched up from the mud of a pond in the province of South Bergenhus, Norway, by a flock of geese in charge of a small boy. The curator of the Stavanger Museum pronounced it a genuine antique...
...record flight from Buffalo to Mineola, L. I. With a favorable wind of 40 miles an hour, they covered the 310 miles in 2 hours, 21 minutes, averaging nearly 150 miles an hour. Flying south of Binghamton, at a height of 6,000 feet, the officers encountered a flock of Canadian geese flying north in "V" formation. The flock broke into circular formation just in time to avoid collision. Had they struck the plane, it is probable that no damage would have resulted-except to the geese. But the propeller of a Liberty motor revolves at 1,600 revolutions...