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Word: herds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lappland, about 50 mil distant (about 300 English miles.) After two days train ride across to Happaranda I joined my friend Lapp Linnen in his Lapp Kojja (cabin) where we rested in anticipation of a Reindeer hunt the following day. Early dawn found us on the trail of a herd, prepared for six to seven hours journey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKOAL TO THE WAX HOUND | 12/11/1936 | See Source »

Briefly, Dr. Little asked Dr. Slye to give, loan or sell to some neutral institution a herd of male mice which she would certify as having no tendency to cancer in their makeup. Then he would give 1,000 of his cancer-susceptible female mice for breeding at a neutral institution. Children of those matings would be bred, brother to sister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICINE: Mouse Matching | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...preparation along these lines will repay the individual many times over. When one remembers that the University can be represented every bit at ably by means of non-organized athletics the incentive should prove strong to turn to the courts or the swimming pool rather than blindly follow the herd onto the grid-iron or the hockey-rink. Organized athletics are normally and naturally the corner-stone of Harvard's outdoor life, but it cannot be too strongly urged that individual tastes and ability be considered before signing up for any team or squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN ON THE FIELD | 9/30/1936 | See Source »

Printing a Wide World photograph of a herd of cattle grazing in the shadow of the North Dakota Capitol, the Forum explained: "Where those cows are presumably grazing is a graveled parking lot. The picture, fake, is a result of a photographic trick of superimposing a picture of a herd of cattle on a picture of the North Dakota State Capitol Building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fargo Fakery | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

...wildcat which can run 70 m.p.h. for distances up to 100 yards. For longer stretches the world's speed champion is the U. S. pronghorn antelope, which can maintain 60 m.p.h. for several miles, 35 m.p.h. almost indefinitely. Rancher Charles J. Belden of Pitchfork, Wyo. once chased a herd of antelope 27 miles in 45 minutes in his automobile. Nearly an eighth of the 40,000 pronghorn antelopes in the U. S. roam over Rancher Belden's 200.000 acres in the Meeteetsee Valley. Few years ago they were so near extinction that hunting them was _ forbidden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Aerial Antelope | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

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