Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hugo's cousin, Devereux Bolinvar. last of the sporting, aristocratic New Jersey Bolinvars, is the book's second hero. "Dev" (6 ft. tall, "fit as a panther") knew all about Cousin Hugo's guilty worry. But Dev was too much of a gentleman to raise the question, and Hugo believed in letting sleeping dogs lie. So the cousins never spoke. But they spent all their time trying to outdo one another on horseback...
...Absentia. In Trenton, N.J., Civil Service Commissioner William S. Carpenter suggested that leaves of absence should be shorter, cited the example of two Jersey City policemen, on official leave, who had been serving as county investigators for the last ten years...
...when most U.S. cows, however familiar they may be with the habits of bees and flowers, will never see a bull. So predicted Dr. J. W. Bartlett of New Jersey's College of Agriculture, announcing that, by artificial insemination with sperm of outstanding bulls, his group has produced calves which grow up to be cows giving twice as much milk as ordinary animals...
...dairy farming. Most dairymen have fewer than 20 cows, cannot afford to keep or hire a superior bull. Dr. Bartlett believes that artificial insemination, with a few great bulls fathering most of the nation's calves, is economically inevitable (already nearly one-tenth of all New Jersey calves are so bred). One incidental bene fit, he observes, is that bulls, which almost invariably become vicious after their fourth or fifth year, will be largely eliminated as a menace to life & limb in the U.S. countryside...
Maker & Breaker. Critic Jackson, San Francisco Chronicle book reviewer, has been a West Coast literary authority for 20 years. Now 50, he was born in New Jersey, studied at Lafayette, was a lieutenant in World War I. He got into advertising in California after the war, was editor of Sunset Magazine for eight years. In 1924 he began a weekly half- hour broadcast on books over San Francisco's station KGO which was steadily popular until he quit...