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...they were as simple as a combustion engine. From Alexis Carrel, with whom he worked for the Rockefeller Institute, he heard about a brave new world in which scientists would be the elite guard; in Ger many he discovered a society where he was never troubled by the vulgar herd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Eagle to Earth | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

First move in corralling the 21 American republics into a homogenous herd is to remove suspicions inevitably occurring because 7,000 miles and many conflicting aims separate the U.S. and Argentina. Uppermost in the minds of foreign ministers packing last week for the consultative conference in Rio de Janeiro Jan. 15 was the question: "Would the cowboy and the gaucho get together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Big Roundup | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

Peru rode herd on its large (30,000-40,000), centralized Japanese colony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: A Hemisphere Matures | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

...right. She was a 1,300-Ib. Holstein, a runaway from a herd of 28 unloaded that day from Wisconsin. Heading back toward the farm, she had wandered along a creek bed which leads into the labyrinth of sewers under the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Moos from a Manhole | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

...Hooton, Germany is "the regue elephant of the herd of national pachyderms, and it baffles veterinary skill to discover the basic cause of its homicidal mania." It evils have so permeated the present generation of the country that "nothing short of a complete obliteration of the German state" can destroy its influence...

Author: By Joel M. Kane, | Title: HOOTON CALLS FRANCE AND RUSSIA "SICK NATIONS," BLASTS NAZI REGIME | 11/15/1941 | See Source »

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