Word: flock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stops infrequently on its flight from Baffin Land), is the great blue goose. Last week President Thomas Gilbert Pearson of the National Association of Audubon Societies concluded an airplane inspection of the many blue geese that winter in southern Louisiana. Near the mouth of the Mississippi he encountered a flock three miles long, half a mile wide. The geese were flying in three strata. Dr. Pearson estimated there were between 600,000 and a million of them. Because they migrate so quickly hunters get less than 1,000 of the two millions that winter in Louisiana. Audubon experts are satisfied...
...Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all "Because we England, have asked his indulged flock in to pray last week "Because we have indulged in national arrogance, finding satisfaction in our power over others rather than in our ability to serve them, forgive our trespasses...
...reality it does not merit the name of law," promptly declared Catholic Archbishop Pascual Diaz, in a pastoral letter to his flock. "It does not merit the name of law, since if it is judged from the Catholic viewpoint it is contrary to the 'just ordination of reason' of which every law should consist; it opposes the positive dispositions of God and the teachings of the Church, the authentic and infallible organ established by Jesus Christ our Lord...
...Neither you as citizens nor I as Archbishop of Mexico can accept the law," he stated flatly to his flock. For the special guidance of priests the Archbishop added: "We, therefore, remind you that the authority of God is the only power and the only absolute authority; others are powers that only share in this authority...
Good Sport (Fox). Kept ladies, where the cinema is concerned, are the female equivalent of gangsters. An entire flock of them appears in this picture. They disport themselves in a mood of mean frivolity, snapping their shoulder straps and rude comments at each other, while making things difficult for the heroine who associates with them in order to learn about her husband's extra-marital amusements. She (Linda Watkins) sub-leases the apartment which her husband has provided for his mistress. While he and the mistress (Greta Nissen) are abroad, she falls in love with a sober-sided young...