Word: calf
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...talents. It was a smashing success. The Business Men's Association, enthusiastic about the idea from the first, had helped by endorsing a community auction and turning over all commissions to the talent drive. The four Warrens had used their talents to buy a heifer, which produced a calf for sale. Norman Triplett and Betty Caris had made and sold neckties. Larry Zimmerly had done wonders with his talent by raising rabbits. Altogether, the $2,000 in talents had multiplied...
Surprisingly, few of the businessmen who expected a general recession in business expected their own business to fall off. This optimism caused The Wall Street Journal to observe: "The . . . recession has the exact characteristics of the standard two-headed calf. As everyone knows, that animal is always in the next county, never in this one. ... A mild recession that dispels the boom psychology will be a welcome guest...
...like that everywhere. In a recent raid on the farm of one Franz Gutland, near Munich, police found two tons of potatoes, 700 eggs, a slaughtered calf and a cow, 15 tons of wheat, one ton of coal, 1,200 gallons of gasoline, 20 pairs of trousers, 7,000 roof tiles...
Ralph V. Summy, Jr. '50Nancy Claflin Holliston John T. Swing '50 Barbara Means Buckingham James B. Taylor '50 Katherine Calf Cambridge Joshua M. Twilley '50 Katharine Wadsworth Radcliffe Perry A. de Valpine '50 Janet Austin Simmons Joseph S. Vera '50 Nancy Horan Sacred Heart James G. Waddell '50 Ligi Goddard Seituate Richard A. Wallace '50 Margo Bulboan Winsor Richard B. Walsh '50 Perry Horvitz Wellesley Lauriston Ward, Jr. '50 Evelyn Cobb Boston J. P. LaWare '50 Janet McLanghlin Lasell Robert L. Ware '50 Alice Warner Wellesley Bennett C. Wilson '50 Diane Grubler Wellesley James F. D'Wolf, Jr. '50 Dickie...
Peggy (dining at right) is the first porpoise to be born alive in captivity. Her 350-lb. mother, Pudgy, gave birth last week in a tank at the Marineland, Fla. Marine Studios. In less than half a minute Pudgy had pushed her calf, an air-breathing mammal, up to the surface to draw her first breath. In an hour and a half Peggy, with all a mammal's proper instincts, was having her first meal...