Word: herd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mind answering the questions on the other side of this sheet, but I do object to the one question on college graduates. Is TIME trying to herd its readers into college people and non-college people...
...sharp November night thinned out into a grey November dawn over rocky Utah. The broad reaches of Great Salt Lake caught up pale sunrise colors. On desolate Antelope Island in the Southeastern corner of the lake the buffalo* herd slowly bestirred itself to test the morning air. Like shaggy brown mounds they looked in the dim light, lurching up lazily from sleep: here three cows and their calves in a grassy pocket gulch; here, in the broader valley, a scattered group of yearlings and dry cows; there, proudly alone, a burly young bull; there, ponderous and patriarchal, respectfully attended...
Preliminary Forensics. Speeches before the Communist Conference last week were as inoffensive as the lowing of a herd of peaceful cows...
...Mark N. Williamson, Michigan 'dirt' farmer, and his brother, Frank H., bookish graduate of Michigan State College and post-graduate of the University of Minnesota. Frank Williamson's statement that 'the character and value of dairy products depend more on the handling of the herd and the products than on expensive registered stock' sounded sensible to me, for I was forced to sell my registered herd. The only rewards for these men will be what they can make Wabeek Farms earn for them...
...greatest problems of the Square was then, as now, the proper control of traffic. However, in 1857, the trouble was due to the herds of cattle that were driven through daily on their way to the Brighton market. Several hundred steers, direct from the fields, would be driven into the Square each day by a few herdsmen. There they would promptly start milling around to the danger of all citizens nearby. For the better part of an hour, their custodians would yell and crack whips in an attempt to straighten out the cavalcade and herd it on to the Brighton...