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...National Air Races, men contestants have always patronized women, in 1934 ousted them altogether. Smilingly observed Pilots Thaden and Noyes last week when they found they had won one of the two most important events of the Races: "Well, that's a surprise! We expected to be the cow's tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Bendix & Thompson | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...tugged at his cow's udders, the ordinary dairyman of the great dairy State of New York had plenty to bother him last week besides keeping Bossy's tail out of his eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hold Your Milk! | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

Full-grown pronghorn antelopes are so claustrophobic that they die within 48 hours after capture. Newly-born fawns, however, are easily domesticated. Rancher Belden, who is proud of never having killed an antelope, catches the fawns with over-sized butterfly nets or with fox terriers, feeds them cow's milk through a nipple. As soon as the young pronghorns are around two months old and weigh about 25 Ib., Rancher Belden sets about delivering them to zoos, which are always eager for them. Since most means of transport are too arduous for the delicate fawns, he uses the Ryan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Aerial Antelope | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...farm gent cut himself on an electric razor. Forward my Congrats. Really I don't see how he did it. It took me six weeks to cut a whisker and I'm not down to the hide yet. I think he got the one meant for the cow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 24, 1936 | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

Professor Francis W. Davis of the university's photography department removed the plug, brought a cinecamera up close to the hole, took pictures of what was going on in the steer's stomach. The film clearly showed that digestion in a cow's stomach is continuous. Semiliquid food surged through in periodic waves like surf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Veterinarians | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

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