Word: oxen
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...bitter French peasant in a Hawaiian grass skirt was driving a span of oxen at Brissac near Tours last week. In the same held another team pulled a heavy plow under the vicious prodding of a gold-laced Spanish matador. Out in the same farm's kitchen garden a Chinese mandarin was watering the kohlrabi. In the stable reporters found a sullen Frenchman in the bonnet and kilts of a Gordon Highlander forking manure...
...found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting...
...when lie had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple and the sheep, and the oxen, and poured out the changers' money and overthrew the tables...
...hoped also to find some clue to the vanishing of the aboriginal inhabitants, to investigate a reported immigration of musk oxen and white wolves from the islands north of Canada. But he was looking for whatever he could find. From the first summer's work he took back to Copenhagen news of a coal deposit containing 50,000 tons, "superior to English coal;" after the second, he had quantities of fossil stegocephali, four-legged amphibians presumed to be evolutionary links between fish and reptiles...
...money. Theodore Roosevelt and Publisher Adolph Ochs became interested, but endowments never kept pace with the Berry Schools' growth. Miss Berry needs $150,000 in gifts every year. Only entrance requirement for the Berry Schools is that one be too poor to go elsewhere. Bartering learning for tobacco, oxen, eggs was known to Miss Berry long before U. S. colleges took it up during the past two years. Wearing overalls and gingham dresses, all Berry students must work two days a week. Simple, combining hand with mind, are the Berry courses-liberal arts, science, commerce, mechanics, agriculture. There...