Word: milked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Iodine in large doses is deadly, in small doses, beneficial. Milk contains a small percentage of iodine. When that percentage is lacking, human health sometimes suffers as a consequence. There are regions of the country in which the absence of iodine in salt, soil, water and milk explains the prevalence there of goitre. The country about Lake Michigan is one of these areas...
...milk cow sets on eggs...
...boating. In fact, William Averell Harriman is serious about almost everything he does. He is vigilant over a great boys' club in Manhattan slums; his farm in Arden, N. Y., is run upon an efficient, not a sporting, plan and it produces each year one million quarts of milk. He plays polo gravely and accurately, without undue brilliance. His chief competitor for place on the U. S. four was Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford, 30, who also inherited a vast fortune (carpets) but who has consistently avoided office work...
...Sheridan, Wyo., tariff was the topic again. Campaigner Curtis, his 68-year-old voice grown husky from daily exercise out doors, recited-"Bacon, hams, buckwheat, cattle, corn, cream, eggs, hogs, lambs, lard, milk, potatoes, rye, sheep and goats, wheat and wool"—free list of the Underwood (1913) law, the law Nominee Smith mentioned favorably in his acceptance speech...
...Millikan's abstractions were the exception, not the rule. Other reports dealt with some of these practical benefits derived from pure science. Francis Howard Car of England, president of the society, reported experiments indicating that the stock-carrying capacity of pastures and consequently their output of meat or milk may be increased to an unexpectedly high level. One-half an acre of grass intensively treated with nitrates for the purpose suffices as a substitute for the usual two or three acres required to graze a cow or its equivalent for a season...