Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...14th Century and the Russians have used it on a big scale in cattle-raising since the late Tsars. But there has been little precise data on the results. Six years ago Dr. Bartlett and his group launched the first carefully controlled test of the economic advantages of artificial cow-breeding. It now includes 1,800 dairymen and 14,000 cows...
...experimenters used bulls of superior milk-producing strains and a standardized technique to produce "artificial" calves. They found that a test group of 120 "artificial" cows produced 9% more milk and 14% more butterfat than their mothers, which were all above-average producers. Their average production-8,557 lbs. of milk in 305 days-was nearly twice the U.S. average per cow. Dr. John H. Beattie, technician in charge of Bartlett's group No. 1 at Clinton, N.J., has said that a single servicing from a bull, diluted with egg yolk and sodium phosphate, can be used to inseminate...
...airfields ahead of them; they also found supplies and fuel neatly arranged in dumps and not a German in sight. Said one officer: "When those fellows got off the boat on D-day they even had mail waiting for them. . . . The only casualty in the whole operation was one cow...
Cracked the Norwood (Ontario) Register: "It . . . must be a Government-trained, left-handed Ottawa cow...
...soldiers? ... It is hopelessly bad for your Byronic hates if you sit through whole winter evenings in the abhorred foe's kitchen and the abhorred foe grants you the uncovenanted mercy of hot coffee and discusses without rancor the relative daily yields of the British and German milch cow...