Word: herd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week he was getting more encouragement. Two midwest institutions (University of Wisconsin, Kansas State College of Agriculture) are checking the News experiments. In Tennessee tests have started on a herd of prize county-owned cattle. Raisers of horses, rabbits, mink, foxes, guinea pigs, hogs have asked for directions...
...were clicking smoothly throughout the entire 60 minutes of play, and turned in a far superior type of hockey than they have exhibited in recent weeks. Harvard was equally up recent weeks. Harvard was equally up to form, and scarcely seemed to show the effects of Tuesday's herd game against Dartmouth...
...bitterest self-reproaches, occurring every few months, centre on his love of horse-racing. After winning ?4,000 at Newmarket he broods: "I herd with the vilest and stupidest and most degraded of beings. ..." After an evening with encyclopedic Thomas Babington Macaulay, Greville ranks himself with the worms, compares his mind to "a hurdy-gurdy in the Street" and Macaulay's to "the great Organ at Haarlem...
...path had time to escape. Injured victims of previous smaller slides were caught, their legs and arms torn from their bodies by the onrush of debris. A corps of carpenters constructing wooden coffins saw a mass of mud moving down a valley, were themselves buried alive. Mothers tried to herd their young to safety as the slithering ground under their feet swept whole families to death. One seven-acre area was covered by a 20-ft. layer of clay...
...this year Oregon's pronghorn herd had risen from the 1911 figure of 2,000 to almost 20,000. Last week the State Game Commission opened a five-day pronghorn hunting season outside its refuge, the first since 1911, limiting hunters to one horned animal of either sex but permitting the use of telescope sights on guns. Reason: too plentiful to please farmers, too tame for their own good, many pronghorns have broken bounds, roam nearby ranches at night to steal food...