Word: holstein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holstein, Iowa...
...writer is a subscriber to TIME and LIFE magazines. The former recently carried a picture of a Holstein cow family consisting of mother and six calves [TIME, Sept. 27] and certain comments, associated therewith, on the female sterility of mixed sex dual births, prompt me to suggest that TIME'S Letters column put out a feeler for more extensive and confirming information on this biological fact or canard, whichever...
...went into his barn, he found that during the night Alta Clover, without assistance, had given birth to sextuplets: five heifers and one bull-four spotted black and white and two nearly all white, all six fully developed, healthy. Stunned, Dairyman Poth put them with a Guernsey and another Holstein to help the mother nurse her herd...
...this week and, soaring eastward over the North Sea off the low coast of Europe, skirt that continent up to the jigsaw peninsula and archipelago which separate the North Sea from the Baltic. Over Germany's sandy Frisian Islands it would pass, over the fat fields of Schleswig-Holstein, over the belts (straits) of Denmark to tidebitten Zealand Island on whose eastern promontory, only three miles from Sweden across the Sound, lies clean, quiet Copenhagen. From the plane landing at Kastrup, Denmark's top-ranking airport, would step Denmark's broad-shouldered Crown Prince Frederik...
...Prince Frederik and his princess were returning from it for another and very different kind of party: the Silver (25th) Jubilee of the reign of the world's tallest monarch. Frederik's father Christian X, King of Denmark and Iceland. The Wends & The Goths, Duke of Schleswig, Holstein, Stormarn, of the Dithmarschen. Lauenburg, and Oldenburg...