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...Falmouth, Ky., 400 farmers flooded the main intersection with their milk; in Paul, Idaho, thousands of pounds* were dumped, symbolically, in front of a bank. Scores of fields in a score of states were churned into lacteal goo by the deluge, and in New Jersey-where farmers and their wives and children walked through a snowstorm to deliver their complaints to the state-house-nearly 1,000,000 Ibs. still warm from the cow, turned a Sussex County snowfield into curds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agriculture: Curds & Woe | 3/31/1967 | See Source »

...Answer: "Sir, she walks, she talks, she's full of chalk. The lacteal fluid extracted from the female of the bovine species is highly prolific to the 11th degree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Service Academies: Hilton on the Hudson | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...West Point, they would have found themselves confronted by a bewildering type of catechism. In the Hell on the Hudson, the new plebes would have had to answer questions such as: "How is the cow?" (Answer: "Sir, she walks, she talks, she's full of chalk; the lacteal fluid extracted from the female of the bovine species is highly prolific to the nth degree.") And if they were asked: "What do plebes rank?", they would of course have replied: "Sir, the Superintendent's dog, the Commandant's cat, the waiters in the mess hall, the Hell Cats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tradition in 90 Days | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

...milk of Bulgaria. Recently Prof. Leo F. Rettger of Yale announced that he had experimented with an allied form of the Bacillus Acidophilus and demonstrated that, induced to breed in great quantities, it expells all harmful bacteria by its harmless self. Thus, puckering their mouths to imbibe the acidated lacteal fluid of bovines, young people, old people, sexa-and even octogenarians may continue to "ripe and ripe." Prof. Rettger also hinted that with these bacilli would be developed a typhoid cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bacillus Acidophilus | 3/23/1925 | See Source »

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