Word: herds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small child in slippers drove a tinkling herd of milk goats through the streets of Sofia at dawn last week and stumbled over a rifle. A little further on lay an ancient shotgun. One of the goats nibbled at a couple of hand grenades lying in the gutter. In all Bulgarian cities similar debris littered the streets, for the cautious citizenry had suddenly decided that their new Premier, one-eyed Kimon Gueorguieff, meant what he said...
...brawny Governor Olson whipped them up to a fine frenzy of outraged feelings : "... I understand, from a survey made by some of the boys in the Twin Cities belt, the pay of some of the reporters even exceeded that of a section hand. . . . You are above the common herd, although you don't get paid for it. . . . This is a struggle between the wage earners and the dividend collectors. . . . 'I say you have to become militant. . . . You have a great chance to do something famous, so do not muff the ball by getting on too high a plane...
...major difficulty is that the average Freshman knows little or nothing about the various Houses. Until after mid-years, they are virtually beyond his ken, and as a result he is all too prone to follow the herd and apply for either Eliot or Dunster, on the sole basis of their social merits. This tendency has not been lessened by the House Masters, who have frankly, and, in a sense, naturally, sought to obtain men whom they have known and liked, regardless of intellectual considerations. It is apparent that if the House Plan is to be a success, the Houses...
...take Mr. Buck's word for it, had been playing havoc with the natives of Jahore until the up-to-date animal-catcher from America went to Asia. By the time the picture has run its course, so simple a thing as the coralling of a whole herd of elephants becomes just a matter of course. We are incidentally given to very definitely understand that Frank Buck is really quite a fellow when it comes to animal baiting...
...local savants, and thus did the name of "cowyard," and later just "yard" come to grace the muddy bit of land enclosed by our older and more renowned dwellings. And rightly then did all good men and true feel that they had a just and honored right to herd their cows nearby...