Word: milking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...private calculations can be based on such an assumption. Thus the Chinese commercial class cannot make long-term contracts with confidence that the Chinese state will endure as long as the contract . . . Corruption thrives on these conditions, but corruption is but one aspect of the consequences. The tendency to milk the soil instead of conserving it, to spend before money loses value instead of saving, to reap a quick profit instead of engaging in long-term constructive efforts, to maintain what the monetary economists call 'liquidity of assets,' but in easily salable goods rather than money-all these...
...couple with a three-months-old child, a 90-year-old man, stranded linemen. For two days and nights, Mrs. Durr had 39 guests. As the storm raged on, they feasted on corned beef brisket, little pig sausage, green beans, dozens of eggs and gallons of milk. The women shared the beds; the men slept on the floor. Mrs. Durr wouldn't take a dime...
...Apostles had no great problem. In others, a week of education usually did the trick. Everyone was invited to a free movie, comic books were passed out to all children, telling the absorbing story of Pedro, Ambrosia, their little daughter and their cow. First the cow gave buckets of milk, and the little girl had dolls and shoes. Then the cow got aftosa: Pedro's daughter became sad, skinny and barefoot. Finally came vaccination and the happy ending...
...every time. At the Ayrshire Breeders Association in Brandon, Vt, a file of cards, with 200 names was needed to register his offspring, valued at some $200,000. One of his offspring, Cavalier's Swanky Hughina, set a formidable record for Ayrshires by producing 18,817 Ibs. of milk and 656 Ibs. of butterfat in a year. Two others, Cavalier's Swanky Gold and Cavalier's Swanky Design, would have been bull champions had it not been for Swanky Dan; when Swanky Dan won the Grand Championship at the Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo, Iowa last year...
...problem is on the agenda of the Student Welfare Committee, no report was planned immediately. However, when an epidemic broke out among students eating in dining halls serviced by the central Kirkland kitchen last week, the matter received more immediate attention. The poisoning has been attributed to either the milk or gravy served Friday...