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Word: flocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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That Harvard students appreciate good reading is shown by the way in which they flock to Copey's readings. It is the Herald which fails to show due appreciation and understanding. It seems to feel that his reading can be conveyed unimpaired through the ether and that the people listening in at home can be thrilled to the same extent as those at the Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COPEY ON THE AIR | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

...Coptic verbs. He was, in point of actual fact, treated to some of the most adroitly compounded Daiquiris of his wide experience and then hustled off to the Waterfront Club in Boston, where he was able to identify a number of the more prominent of Dr. Lowell's flock, their neckties under their ears, drinking what appeared to be Crug's yellow label extra sec and dancing in a not altogether academic fashion with young ladies assuredly not discovered in the Radcliffe library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Plan Has Not Forced Harvard Men Completely to Take the Veil, Says Beebe in Columns of New York Herald-Tribune | 12/9/1930 | See Source »

Died. Alexis Cardinal Charost, 69, Archbishop of Rennes; in Rennes, France. In the World War, as Bishop of Lille when that city was first occupied by the Germans, he encouraged his flock to passive resistance against the invaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 17, 1930 | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

...cinema performances; to give employment to musicians. Mr. Skalski, 35, is energetic, hopeful. Three years ago he went to Chicago as a piano teacher, last year had an orchestra with which he gave six concerts. This year's program is based on the idea that crowds will flock to music if they can suit their own convenience as to time, as they do in going to the cinema. For 15 weeks three continuous programs will be played by Skalski daily. A typical program: classical music at 6:30 p.m., popular music at 8 p.m., semi-popular music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Like the Movies | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

Soon Pastor Duane B. Aldrich explained to his amazed, amused and scandalized flock: he had instructed the stewards to whistle every time a dollar bill or more was dropped in the plates. There had been 105 whistles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 105 Whistles | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

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