Word: cud
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...stabbings of false conscience. Science, the preachers tell us, can claim too much. A reasonable person cannot expect the food mentors to send Whitings a psychologist to tell when the cows feel contented, or when the outlook for the future sours up. Nobody knows what part of the cud is Cream. But an official taster, specifically selected for a sensitive palate and delicate taste, would not only provide an important mechanical function, that of keeping bad milk off the tables, but would add to the kitchen that human element which is so essential a part of any large food purveying...
Practical politicians are still chewing the cud of the Lincoln Day speeches. They were not uninspiring rhetorical hearkenings-back to the glories of a dead past. Dr. Glenn Frank and Senator Van-denburg gave no ordinary speeches on this occasion. But above all former President Hoover's fighting speech was anything but meaningless oratory...
...Morris. Ill., John Prombo saw a cow chewing her cud in the path of a speeding train. Racing down the railroad tracks, he coaxed, tugged, pushed, could not budge the placid animal. In the instant before the train was upon them, the cow loped safely off the tracks. The engine killed John Prombo...
...cohesive during the centuries. The laws, however, have their sensible loopholes. In a case of life-or-death, a Jew may eat anything. But no good Jew considers racketeering or carelessness a necessity. Healthiness of flesh is the basis of kashruth. Animals must have cloven hoofs and chew the cud (but no cud-chewing camels, no split-hoof swine). Fish must have both fins and scales (no sharks, no catfish, no shellfish). Birds must not prey. No creature that "goeth upon the belly" is kosher. Nor is one that dies a natural death (disease might have caused death). Because...
...communicate the life of the past. If the past is distrusted, it is because the teachers have not enkindled it, and the students have not burst into flame. Discussing the university don in one of his aromatic essays, George Santayana says: "Yet dry learning and much chewing of the cud take the place amongst them of the two ways men have of really understanding the world--science, which explores it, and sound wit, which estimates humanly the value of science and of everything else." The educated man, whether he has been to college or not, comes ultimately to rely upon...