Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State College, Pa., Pennsylvania State College scientists last week decided to operate on a cow. Into the stomach of this cow a hole would be cut for the insertion of a rubber tube to facilitate investigations interrupted last fortnight by the death of Cow Jessie...
...time of Jessie's decease, Bacteriologist Tittsler was forming new theories on the digestion of cellulose. Doctors Samuel Irvin Bechdel, Hannah Elizabeth Honeywell and Veterinarian James Fremont Shigley; Professors Raymond Adams Dutcher, Martin Halvor Knutsen also wished to perform further investigation on the stomach of a cow. Meeting last week, they decided that the second Pennsylvania State College cow would be selected within two weeks; agreed that rubber tubing would be as effective in Jessie II as it had been in Jessie...
...only do the fortunate inhabitants of the cow-breeding strawberry-raising island of Guernsey, ancient fief of the Dukes of Normandy, enjoy the finest climate and the lowest taxes in the British Isles, but they have their own special coins and measures (eight doubles: one penny; one vergee: 0.4 acres) and their own archaic and particular means of legal redress. The method of obtain.ng a civil injunction in Guernsey is curious, simple and direct, consists in raising a Clameur de Haro in the presence of witnesses...
...gold medal last year was awarded to Rene Clarke, art director of Calkins and Holden. The most effective use of display line was found in an advertisement of the Scripps-Howard newspapers "Kill my cow for an editor? I should say not!" Advertising of its new car and the general subject of aviation brought an award to the Ford Motor Company...
...Over the jangling piano of many an old cow-town honkytonk used to hang this notice: "Don't shoot the piano player. He's doing the best...