Word: herd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. William Henry Jackson, 99, pioneer photographer of the West; of complications following a fall; in Manhattan. At 22, a Civil War veteran who had fought with the Army of the Potomac, he escorted migrant Mormons over the Oregon Trail, drove a mule train over the Rockies, rode herd on 300 mustangs bound from Sacramento to Omaha. He photographed the building of the Union Pacific, the boom days of Cripple Creek and Leadville, made camera records of the Indians and frontiersmen of the Wyoming Territory, gave stay-at-home Easterners their first graphic pictures of the West...
There are exceptions. Some stations merely hired "disk-jockeys" to ride herd on swing records, in the traditional milkman's matinee style. WJZ, New York, evolved a six-hour, all-musical program in which every word except the news flashes is sung. A chorus, jam band and harpsichord render the station breaks in such senseless jingles as this...
...team fielding statistics, Cornell has pulled itself up from next to last so that it now leads of the herd with a .944 average and only eight errors. Dartmouth, having played one more game, has .933 and 11 miscues. In fifth with .928 is the Varsity...
During Biologist Huxley's absence, practical biology in London's Zoo has carried on. Five white male goats were born to the Royal herd. The bear cages are crowded with the addition of seven brown cubs. Five baby Bactrian camels of Russian descent are expected to arrive sometime next month...
...trouble with most of our current speech-making on war aims has been its lack of any really new idea. Over and over again we have heard the same old phrases about the virtues of democracy and the ultimate "victory of the herd of free men." But a lot of this talk has seemed pretty inadequate in view of the last twenty years of democratic world rule...