Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shanghai Movie Producer Wu Hsin-tsai had a brilliant idea. He would produce a comedy about barbers; Shanghai's 50,000 barbers would flock to it; they would talk about it in their barbershops. If each mentioned it to ten customers, box-office returns at $10,000 CN per seat (about 20? U.S.) would be incalculable...
Waited in the west, a wily flock...
...exodus was no haphazard expedition. Advance parties of armed men went ahead to build and garrison forts, plant crops along the route, prepare the road. Wagon trains were spaced to conserve grazing land, and the flock was cheered at night by Captain Pitts's Brass Band, which had been converted en masse in England and had come to join the trek...
...debris. Said one of the California scientists: "With the old cyclotron of 225 tons [60 inches], we could knock two or three floors off a 50-story building, or maybe add a floor or two. But with the new cyclotron, we can knock that 50-story building into a flock of four-room bungalows, with a lot of nails and shingles left over...
Bill Barron, who played the outfield for the Samborski flock, and Bill Fitz, Crimson first-sacker, earned the dubious distinction of finishing second and third, respectively, in number of times struck out. Barron fanned 11 times in 30 trips to the plate, Fitz 10 in 37. The League leader in this department whiffed 13 times. HARVARD BATTING ab r h rbl tb avg. Coulson, of 41 6 15 8 24 .366 Fitz, 1b 37 10 9 4 14 .243 Forte, 2b 40 3 9 6 9 .225 Hamlen, c 40 4 9 3 9 .225 Barron...