Word: flock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sole purpose of evading them. Thus escape might appear unnecessary from a routine that is pleasant in itself. But even the best of studies eventually cloys the palate. And in general a fortnight's diversion only whets the intellectual appetites. Harvard is the only shepherd to drive home his flock in the middle of New Year's week. Two full weeks at Christmas-time, including as they would the additional week-end, would be a most welcome extension and at the same time a most conservative allowance...
Outside Plains, Mont., E. C. Major's flock of sheep stampeded into the path of a locomotive, were hurled over the landscape, mowing down and killing Herder Major...
Unless the French diplomats are a flock of drivelling idiots, they must see that German aggression can be thwarted only by prompt action of the league of Nations. Yet despite this, France continues to play drop the handkerchief while Geneva strives to rally the forces of the world against the depredations of Italy. Nothing could be more asinine than the recent statement by Laval, that while France would fulfill her covenant duties, still she would strive to find some way of enticing Benito and Haile to lie down in the jungle together...
Birds of a feather will all flock together at this year's first meeting of the Harvard Ornithology Club in the Upper Common Room of Adams House on Friday evening, October 4, at 7.30 o'clock. Frederick A. Saunders, professor of Physics, will show moving pictures of birds which he took with his own peculiar telephoto arrangement...
...however, wore neither pants nor coat and only the tattered remnants of a shirt around his neck. In confusion about the figure lay twisted steel rails, bits of machinery, other wreckage left by a black twister labeled "Rugged Individualism." Disappearing in the distance, the twister was bearing off a flock of banks, factories and "reputations." Says the banker: "It wasn't much of a cyclone at that...