Word: angus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year young Farmer Brown had no entry, but he led the grand champion. Jimmy, a coal-black Aberdeen Angus like Lucky Strike, into the prize ring. Aberdeen Anguses have won nine international shows, more than any other breed. Jimmy's owner is Banker J. Frank McKenny of King City, Mo. whose herdsman is Elliott Brown's uncle. There was no chicanery about Jimmy's championship. He was sold for beef at auction to the Breakers Hotel, Atlantic City, for $2,700, or $2.50 per Ib. (Last year's prizewinner was bought by Chainstoreman James Cash...
Reporters of these findings were Dr. James Angus Doull, formerly of Johns Hopkins, now professor of preventive medicine at Western Reserve University (Cleveland) ; and Dr. Perrin Hamilton Long of Johns Hopkins. The John Jacob Abel Fund (Chemical Foundation's $195,000) paid their expenses. The two researchers got their cold virus in the first instance from the noses and throats of persons plainly suffering from colds. Those secretions they put through filters which were so fine that the smallest known germs could not get through. This filtrate they dabbed in the nostrils of perfectly healthy volunteers, among them girls...
...Thebaud pulled up a little after they had rounded the first mark; she was sailing at her best angle, with booms well inboard. Bluenose was still ahead at the third mark, but here Capt. Charley Johnson, sailing Thebaud because Capt. Ben Pine was sick, showed seamanship that baffled Capt. Angus Walters on Bluenose. With a windward tack ahead, Capt. Walters did what any sailor might do-he close-hauled to port. Thebaud came up astern and after trimming sheets stood off to westward...
...plethora of dull, traditional conceptions, Herbert Haseltine's black marble Aberdeen Angus Bull and Mark Symons' Crucifixion ("Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?") drew the most comment. In the latter, Calvary was peopled with a jeering crowd of moderns such as might be seen in any derisive London or Manhattan mob. There were the usual mannerly portraits of royalty. In one room Dame Laura Knight, attired in a white felt sombrero, with red pigtails coiled over her ears, was to be seen contemplating her own scenes of circus life, and Artist George Frederick Arthur Belcher stalked...
...recipient of the Edwards Whitaker Prize Scholarship, "awarded at mid-years to the Freshman who shows the most outstanding scholastic ability and intellectual promise as indicated by distinction in studies and general achievement," was Angus Ellis Taylor '33, of Pomona, California...