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...best beef animal in the world. But other cowmen complain that it is prone to some diseases such as cancer eye and udder burn. The Aberdeen Angus, still growing in popularity, is first-rate under ideal conditions. But it has a reputation for being hard to handle. The hump-backed Brahman, immune to India's heat and insects, is undeniably tough, but so is its meat. A few massive, pale brown Charollaise have been imported from France via Mexico. But since 1937 they have been barred by foot-and-mouth disease laws, and the U.S. herd numbers only...
...mostly a question of fatigue, of being "over the hump," for no Crimson swimmer was able to equal his peak performance of the season. This, coupled with the fact that qualifying times this year were probably lower than ever in the past, limited the varsity to only three finalists...
...fact by falling into the posture known as "secretarial slump." The droopy area must instead be frankly and firmly put to rights, not only by "corrective exercises" at home but "on-the-job grooming" during office hours. Neglected or ignored, it will all result in "dowager's hump" as a matter of course, and while this more serious condition is not incorrigible, it is certainly in a graver category than mere slump. Indeed, the whole of Glamour Expert Lilly Dache's book is a warning to women readers not to let a single waking minute tick by without...
...then an obscure, 40-year-old U.S. infantry officer, found his crisis in Burma. Under command of General Joseph Stilwell, the Allies were set to drive across northern Burma to Myitkyina, key Japanese defense base and main air base from which fighters menaced the allied air route over "the Hump" to China. With a newly built road eastward from Ledo in northern India, they would intersect the Burma Road, reopen the land route to China...
...Luis, on thenorth coast of the Brazilian hump, for fuel...