Word: lopped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three times a day for most of her 17 years, a lop-eared Holstein-Friesian cow by the name of Pansco Hazel has been herded into a white barn on the dairy farm of Frank Pellissier near Whittier, Calif, and milked. Her average daily production: 37 qts. In her time, purebred Hazel (out of Hazel Colantha Rag Apple de Kol by Pansco Sequoia Adventurer) has seen hand milking bow to the machine age, has had her milk pasteurized and homogenized, has had 13 calves and is again pregnant...
...Belgian Composer Raymond Chevreuille, had the contestants in an uproar. Complained one: "Bartok and Prokofiev are duck soup compared to it." Said another, singling out two men who happened to be among the 13 contest judges: "Even Rubinstein and Casadesus couldn't play it." Concours officials agreed to lop off the third movement for the decisive test...
Saturday's match, won 7 to 0 by Yale, took the Crimson team completely by surprise. Main factors in the lop-sided Eli win was the Yale course, one of the finest in the world. The greens, much larger than those at Dedham, caused frequent three-putting among the Crimson players, and the narrow fairways heavily penalized stray shots. The Yale players, familiar with the course, were able to cope with a constant heavy wind that caused the visitors scores to soar...
...most devastating and widespread nutritional disorder in the U.S. today. Tests on 103 men showed that the average fellow consists of about 14% fat at the age of 20, eats his way up to 25% fat by the time he reaches 60. Dr. Brozek's advice: lop 7% from the 3,000 calories consumed daily for every decade after...
Twenty-eight states have already passed this sort of resolution. If four more fall in line, the resolution will be placed before the states for approval as the Twenty-Third Amendment. By halting progressive taxation at twenty-five percent, the Amendment would lop an estimated fifteen billion dollars from federal tax revenues. Its sponsors, of course, hope that the Government will chop its budget by the same amount. But foreign and defense commitments make this impossible. The Government, therefore, will be unable to finance these commitments without walking the tightrope of deficit finance or instituting highly regressive taxation...