Word: herd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Teacher from Cornell. George Frederick Warren, 59, Professor of Farm Management and Agricultural Economics at the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell, is an economist close to the soil. As a boy he herded sheep on his native farm in Clay County, Neb. After his degree from the University of Nebraska and postgraduate study at Cornell he settled down in Ithaca in 1906 as an assistant professor in the Agricultural College and as operator of his own 500-acre farm close by. There he raised six children, cash crops and a large herd of Holstein cows. Scornful...
...proper nourishment, being pot-bellied with a dull lustreless coat and a general appearance of undernourishment. The word is also used as an adjective, the term "dogied'' meaning having lost its mother and showing the effect in lack of growth and poor proportions. Cowboys when driving a herd find the small weak animals in the rear of the herd as they weaken and drop back so that in their songs in speaking of "roll along or git along, little dogies" they refer to the last of the herd commonly called the "drags" which have to be urged...
...July it was learned that D. C. L.'s managing director, Thomas Herd, was in Montreal visiting his affiliated Distillers Corp.-Seagrams, Ltd. About all the liquormen knew was that Mr. Herd was a quiet, hard-headed gentleman who abhorred publicity and brokers, that he never moved a step without an aide, Thomas Wilkinson...
Nevertheless, they flooded Mr. Herd with offers for the world's biggest line of liquors -to no avail. Suddenly Mr. Herd and his shadow turned up in Manhattan. Hopes soared. But Mr. Herd and Thomas Wilkinson saw no one except their own representatives, sailed for home the same night...
...shots sent the herd thundering off in another direction. The relieved Davisons dethorned themselves and Hunter Klein "put two bullets into the bull's brain as he lay just 18 paces from where we had stood as we brought him down; and that was the end of that...