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Since that time no major fire has disturbed the tranquility of the Yard. The University has grown so that now only about 13 percent of undergraduate residents live in the original cow-yard, for the 'twenties and 'thirties witnessed the building of the Houses, all modern and fire-resistant...
This state of affairs has come about because a cow in Ruanda is like a Cadillac in the U.S.-a mark of social distinction. The natives almost never sell or slaughter their cows, in time of famine prefer to die of starvation beside their impassive bovines. Each animal has its own name and every Ruandan dreams of at least two cows in his pasture. The cows are now increasing at the rate of 120,000 a year. They tie up the best land, hamper the natives in raising food crops. "Except the king,"*runs a popular saying, "nothing ranks above...
...Senate: ¶ Defied the butter lobby by repealing the 48-year-old federal tax of 10? a pound on colored oleomargarine, and ¼? a pound on uncolored. In the heat of debate, Wisconsin's butter-loving Alexander Wiley pleaded with his colleagues to remember that "the dairy cow is the foster mother of the race." The Senate granted only one concession to the butter makers: oleo would have to be sold in triangular instead of rectangular packages...
...cow that gave such milk I'd dress her in the finest silk, Feed her on the choicest hay, And milk her 40 times...
...dead pan, that the change in the well-known name might cut down sales in dollar countries. Someone in the Food Ministry recognized the boner, and last week the advice was withdrawn. Said a contrite Ministry spokesman: "Nobody but an imbecile would connect sherry with the product of a cow...