Word: oxen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...livestock ordinance also received adjustment. Not only goats, but domestic fowl, sheep, swine, horses, oxen, and cows are positively not allowed to roam at large through the streets...
They extracted juices from the muscles, heart, lungs, brain, kidneys, spleen, liver, pancreas, stomach, thyroid, testes, pituitary, thymus, and adrenals of dogs, cats, rats, rabbits, guinea pigs, oxen, men & women. Unexpectedly, extract of the cortices of adrenal glands stimulated the bitterling precisely the way ovarian hormones did. None of the other tissue juices caused that effect...
Wolf-fed Romulus was supposed to have founded Rome 2,689 years ago by plowing a furrow round the seven hills with a span of oxen. Repeating the same gesture, Benito Mussolini in full-dress uniform strode across a vast field to where a brand new tractor plow was standing near a crowd of spectators. First came a speech with clenched fists, outthrust jaw, harsh voice, sweating brow...
...other side of the run, the Olympic flag, which consists of a white background decorated with five interlocking circles to represent the Continents, floated into the air. The Olympic bell rang. All the church bells of Garmisch tinkled in response. A cannon, lugged into the arena by oxen, boomed. The bands played the Olympic hymn. The crowd cheered, clapped, yelped "Heils" that echoed down from the mountains. When the uproar began to die down, German Skier Willi Bogner scrambled up the steps of a rostrum decked with fir boughs, raised his right arm in Olympic salute, touched the flag...
...drowning in the Nahanni River. A storm almost blew their plane into Great Slave Lake. Mr. Goodwin was almost eaten by black flies, bulldog flies, midges and mosquitoes while from a blind he filmed giant, sharp-humped wood buffalo wallowing in the dust at a water-hole. Stampeding musk oxen almost ran down a guide. And bears definitely stole the meat the party had hung for safekeeping between trees. Trophies for the American Museum: three blue Stone Mountain sheep, 200 small mammals. The prize trophies, however, will be divided with the Canadian National Museum : six white, Dlack-tailed mountain sheep...