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Ruminant. In Black Hawk County, Iowa, Farmer Sheldon Anton finally spotted the cause of an old lump on his cow's flank when he noticed twelve inches of pitchfork handle protruding from her ribs...
...caught a crab at the start of its traditional race against Oxford. Then, with 200,000 people watching, Cambridge caught up with Oxford and forged ahead to win a five-length victory-in the fastest time since the race was first rowed in 1829. One Cambridge secret weapon: a cow that the crew had bought to insure a healthy supply of milk in food-scarce Britain...
...school was organized as a town, to teach civic duty; boys paid '"town" taxes on their radios and bicycles, purchased "licenses" to hunt & fish on the 3,000-acre campus. Mrs. Riddle provided a blooded herd (one Guernsey cow cost $60,000) for the instruction of her young gentleman farmers. She also spent money on good instructors...
...plane lifted from the rail, and in Orville Wright's own account "climbed a few feet, stalled, then settled to the ground. My stopwatch showed that the machine had been in the air just 3½ seconds." It was not until nearly a year later, on a cow pasture near Dayton, Ohio, that the Wrights used the derrick (see cut) catapult method which Reader Hatch describes...
...Pretty Girl Milking the Cow-Ben Shahn...