Word: calf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what, good purpose can a cow That brings no calf or milk be bent...
...teams without requiring more of the players interest and time than the game justifies. Keep the sport-goer out of the stands if necessary, except for the alumnus and undergraduate; but by no means carve up a great game simply because the public looks upon it as a Golden Calf. Yale News...
Five feet ten inches he stands in his naked feet. Normal, his chest stretches the tape 44 inches; expanded, 49. Waist 31, thigh 24, calf 16½, ankle 8, neck 18, biceps 16½, reach 74?complete his description, except for the ineffable, the ineluctable, the sublime beauty of his face. His name is William Wright of Dustan Corner, Me. His nameless face and figure are in the marble, the bronze, the oils of Barnard, MacMonnies, Manship, Sargent...
Simultaneously with Dr. Haldane's exoneration by a benchful of distinguished gentlemen, the public-school teachers of Newport, Ky., were ordered by the local board of education to see that the lower hems of their skirts soared no higher than eleven inches (lower middle calf) from the ground, that their elbows were at all times covered decently. A mothers' club had protested that shorter skirts and nude elbows distracted their progeny from salubrious concentration upon their studies...
...mountain tribes goats; tropical ones buffaloes. Asses' milk is highly esteemed far and wide. Each type of milk has its peculiar flavor, sometimes nauseating to the uninitiated. In the wild state, these animals, and the cow also, cease their milk flow after weaning their young. Farmers know that a calf weaned late is unusually frisky...