Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year, unionized his plant, boasted he had fought the ''tobacco trust" and never been beaten. His company's net sales were $23,704,029 in 1933, $28,551,842 last year. He raised blooded stock, owned Betsy Hopeful, "the $42,500 wonder cow," and Hank MacTavish, a gelding he nominated for this year's Kentucky Derby...
...Conservatism has too long been the sacred cow of the campus," proclaims the "Record." ". . . an emphatic farewell to political conservatism," shouted the Yale "News" only two months ago. These statements are actually pictures of the new trend in undergraduate journalism. They are pictures which cannot but call a word of approval from all papers which have long struggled for a vigorous, opinionated expression of the new student thought...
...Last year Ward earned $9,302,000 (11 mo.) as against a deficit of $8,712,000 in 1931. But Mr. Avery continues as Gyp's president, a fact which lets him in for unmerciful attacks from disaffected Ward stockholders. Once they cartooned Montgomery Ward as a cow. U. S. Gypsum as a pail and Mr. Avery, as he said at a boisterous Ward stockholders' meeting last year, "in the flattering position of doing something about which I know nothing...
Critic. What U. S. dairymen need are not fancy animals but any sort of cow that gives high quantities of good milk. The two, says Critic Prentice, are not necessarily, or even often, the same. There is a false emphasis on '"type" (show-ring points) and pedigree. High milk production is an inherited capacity which cannot be told by looking at the creature. Nevertheless breeders buy cows which have "long thin tails with a good switch," buff noses, incurving horns, in the belief that such dams will infallibly transmit their milk-producing ability to their calves. To sire their...
...many genes are involved in transmitting milk ability that it is far beyond mathematical analysis. But Mr. Prentice and his staff were convinced that by assiduous testing under the general laws of genetics they could find what they wanted. They found first, as others had found, that a cow inherits productive capacity from both dam and sire. They found further that, as regards quantity of milk, a cow gets seven-tenths of her inheritance from whichever parent has the higher inheritance; as regards butterfat percentage, four-tenths of her inheritance from whichever parent is higher. The dam's inheritance...