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...gave thought to the soldiers ahead or to the "radical" bomb-plotters who had necessitated their presence, he did not show it. He gazed with placid satisfaction out of his car window at the Argentine's horizon-filling wheat ranches and pampas, at her myriad herds of kine and mutton...
Bethlehem was crowded. Joseph could find no room at the inn, or any decent lodging. So humbly in a stable, warmed by the breath of kine, the Babe was born, Mary wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him wailing in a manger, between an ox and an ass; and the animals fell to their knees before the Babe.−(St. Luke II, 1:7; and tradition...
Unimpressed by the new importance of the Beaver Man, enemy of floods, angry rivers burst dykes, fell upon Arkansas and Missouri farmers. Hundreds scurried to the safety of high hills, driving kin and kine before them. In their wake came the flood waters of the White River, deluging 40,000 acres in Arkansas. Missourians fought the rising St. Francis, already claiming 25,000 acres, with the crest yet to come. Mississippi valley dwellers remembered 1927, wondered if the Beaver Man would help...
Behold the fowl. See how proudly he struts among his brother and wife fowl. How scornfully and derisively he crows at the barnyard turkeys. How arrogantly he pecks at his beans and his cabbage. How sneeringly he looks upon the swine, how snubbingly upon the kine. But well should he be proud; it the recent Hotel Exposition he was elected the nation's most popular dish. Every day more diners choose him for their pieces de resistance than any other man, bird, or beast in the country. He is the chief mouth-waterer and gastrician of the land...
Cambridge is indeed near Boston. No longer is Harvard a country college with kine grazing on the adjacent common (see any old wood cut); no longer is Cambridge a tiny village more than a mile to the east, and Boston a full two hours away. In short Harvard is no longer splendidly isolated and dependent upon her own resources, but instead in addition to them the student may draw upon those of Boston as well. Museums, public libraries, and theatres, perhaps with most of the emphasis on the last, now play a large part in undergraduate life and add materially...