Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Jakko Mikkola shepherded his flock of candidates for the University and Freshman cross country teams out into the road for their first workout yesterday. Men may report for both squads during the wek and a group of 100 is expected to be on hand soon...
...Detroit. Last week 20,000 veterans of the war with Spain gathered from all states. A flock of automobiles was waiting to carry them down the streets, but the old soldiers laughed. "To hell with those things," they remarked; then they put on blue or light brown uniforms and marched afoot along Woodward Ave. Brass bands played the quick sad songs they had marched to almost 30 years ago-"After the Ball," "Just as the Sun Went Down," "Goodbye Dolly Gray." On the sidewalks girls cheered and threw flowers just as other girls had once thrown flowers to soldiers...
Cure. With a direct honesty like that of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America in its reports, Dr. Carroll's Interchurch Conference' study of these church losses recommends a cure: "The discovery that members are straying away from the flock while church and pastor are busy with matters of far less moment and that wanderers are increasing at an alarming rate, must seem a grievous thing demanding immediate attention from those still in the fold. . . . Take away the materialistic character of the shekels needed for the sanctuary. Do not use such terms as 'assessments,' taxes...
Purposeful, he tore through the gale at 100 miles an hour?finally sighting and circling over Ocotal. "Click" went the small, simple mechanism of his bomb release. Far below, masses of men became suddenly red, formless and conglomerate. Within half an hour a flock of black vultures were coasting down through the hot, cruel...
...Vassar is divided into many cliques. This is a deplorable, but unavoidable fact. It is not possible, it seems to me, for any general sociability to exist, for birds of a feather must flock together' and you cannot make them do otherwise...