Word: calfing
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...that his music is slowly winning public approval. Says he: "There is less resistance. Once I was beaten for my music, now younger men get some of the beating." Of Transfigured Night's belated popularity he crowed: "You see! In 1901 a critic said it was like a calf with six feet, like what you saw at a fair...
British scientists who sailed with the whaling fleet were not surprised. Their explanation: whales are sluggish at multiplication. Females mate once in two years,* produce only one calf at a time. Next year they rest, suckling their calves six to seven months until, in the case of the great blue whales, they are over 50 feet long. A young whale must be at least three years old before bearing a calf...
That Ain't Hay. In Lindsay, Ont., Elmer Jewell was found guilty of starving his livestock. Evidence: a calf ate a horse's tail...
Allen ("Buck") La Fever was tired of lifting a cow. On the Borden Company's County Fair program, last Oct. 16, he volunteered to test a legend: he would lift a Jersey calf, Phoebe, once a day, hoping eventually to lift a full-grown cow (TIME, Dec. 17). Last week, after 218 straining days, the pride of Somerville, N.J., failed to umph Phoebe off the ground...
Great Scott! That's no way to lift a calf! That's making the outstretched arms do most of the work. That'll kill you in time. You've got to get under your beast and lift with all the power of your legs and shoulders...