Word: flock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vanitie v. Resolute. Outboards, dinghies, canoes and purring launches teemed among a great flock of sleek sailing ships in Morris Cove, Conn. (New Haven) as the New York Yacht Club fleet made ready for the gold-star event of U. S. yachting. Early one morning, a tall, slightly stooped man stepped to the bridge of his big white steam yacht Nourmahal and gave a signal. A gun boomed. Moorings were slipped and out sailed the fleet in the wake of Commodore William Vincent Astor. Among many another power craft that churned along with the fleet was John Pierpont Morgan...
Endurance Attempts. Of a flock of aspirants towards new refueling endurance records, one at Houston, Texas, another at Shreveport, La., each managed to keep aloft more than 100 hours last week. A third, a Curtiss-Robertsoh at St. Louis, had been up more than 200 hours, flew on into this week hopeful of passing the 246-hour record...
...competition with German universities. Since the War thousands of U. S. students seeking a continental education have gone to the Sorbonne. Lately, the German universities have been recovering prestige and U. S. tuition fees. Soon, unless the French portraits help prevent it, young U. S. scientists and philosophers will flock to Heidelberg, Gottingen, Leipzig, Berlin, as numerously as they did when Wilhelm was Der Kaiser and attending the Sorbonne was considered not the greatest of intellectual gestures...
...this connection, it may be well to point out that in 1917 we had at Harvard some few of the same type of various young ass that wrote this "editorial" yet in such a small minority that they were entirely lost sight of when Harvard men began to flock to the colors...
...little five-inch burnished cock, which shone like a jewel or a bird of paradise, and a more sober but exquisite hen. These two, Frank and Nina, and all their numerous progeny for many years, Sophocles trained to the hand. Each knew its name, and would run from the flock when its white-haired keeper called, and, sitting upon his hand or shoulder, would show queer signs of affection, not hesitating even to crow...