Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington office for ten years, spoke mainly about domestic politics on his tour, and was struck by one special concern among the students he met. That concern was academic freedom, congressional investigations and Communism. Wrote McNaughton: "I have spoken at some 50 colleges and universities. I have sat in bull sessions with hundreds of students, and answered thousands of questions in open forums. It is my belief that if the Communists are depending on the professors to achieve their revolution, they are betting a miserably weak hand. The students are reading widely and seriously, and asking pertinent questions...
WALL Street Analyst Washington Dodge predicts a great bull market for "sometime in 1954" which will lift the Dow-Jones industrial average, now 270.88 "comfortably over 300." Other Dodge predictions: New York Central stock, now 25, will be selling at 37; Du Pont, now 91, at 125; Western Union, now 44⅛, at 88; Bethlehem Steel...
...Janesville, Wis. last week, an unusual calf was born on the farm of John and Melford Hill. It was the first calf in the U.S. to be sired by bull semen that had been kept frozen at -110° F. The Wisconsin Scientific Breeding Institute, which supervised the affair, believes that frozen semen will start a kind of revolution in the cattle-breeding business...
...frozen semen system has been used in England with success, and its economics looks promising. Normally, a healthy bull can fertilize two cows a week, but during this period he produces enough semen to fertilize hundreds by artificial insemination. The main trouble has been that unfrozen semen begins to lose its potency after two days and is not much good after seven days. Under the new system, the output of a desirable bull can be stockpiled in the frozen state and be ready for use at any time in any part of the world. None need be wasted because...
...known that frozen semen will keep its viability for at least eight months, but there is a good chance that it will last indefinitely. Then a famous bull could become immortal in a sense: he could keep on fathering calves-as many as 100,000 of them-long after his body had been made into bologna and bone meal...