Word: hoof
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...India the pious bow before sacred Brahma bulls. Last week impious Chicagoans sold several of these holy animals for bologna. They brought only $8.50 the 100 lb.-on-the-hoof. Ordinary prime Texas steers brought...
...Animal Industry, including the inspection of beef, the control of hoof-and-mouth disease, cattle tick, livestock quarantine and interstate transportation...
Last summer Clarence led Dick to the Marshall County Fair; Dick won the grand champion steer prize. Then Clarence led Dick to the Iowa State Fair at Des Moines; Dick won third prize. Both prizes brought Clarence $148 cash. Someone offered Clarence $1 a pound for Dick on the hoof. Clarence's father said sell; Clarence said no, he wanted to exhibit Dick at the International Live Stock Show at Chicago. And to Chicago last week he led Dick...
...best horses and riders; the means of deciding was to have each team ride its mounts around the ring, over jumps. If a horse knocked off the top-bar of a fence (a grave fault), it counted points against him; if he touched it with a lagging hoof (a minor fault) perhaps a half-point was scored against...
...Column 2, page 40. "Hoofs" is the more acceptable plural for "hoof." Incidentally, less is known about the slumber habits of horses than of any other domestic animal. I have been around horses for over sixty years and do not remember ever to have actually seen a horse asleep. Certainly they require very little sleep...