Word: sires
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Bent on dedicating German youths to some other God than the sire of Christ, zealots of the Ludendorffist German Faith movement celebrated Easter with vague but impassioned rites. At Hamburg, Leipzig and in the Rhineland, bands of German boys and girls stepped out briskly under what was called "the blue banner of the German Faith, with its golden sunwheel, the Viking flag of the revolution of the German soul...
...Over these bits of good news Generalissimo Chiang smacked his thin lips, enjoying tea with "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang. This gilded Chinese youth fell heir to the fabulous loot of his mighty War Lord sire, the late, great Chang Tso-lin, drinker of hot tigers' blood and toyer with hotter women. Last week the Young Marshal was still trying to make good, fooling around the Communist war zone in his shiny new Boeing plane...
...milk production is an inherited capacity which cannot be told by looking at the creature. Nevertheless breeders buy cows which have "long thin tails with a good switch," buff noses, incurving horns, in the belief that such dams will infallibly transmit their milk-producing ability to their calves. To sire their herds they buy champion bulls which have convinced judges on some 25 show-ring points. The result is that unbiased experts no longer claim that cows registered, in herd books produce more milk than unregistered animals, that wise breeders sometimes pay more for unregistered cows than for their elite...
...ability that it is far beyond mathematical analysis. But Mr. Prentice and his staff were convinced that by assiduous testing under the general laws of genetics they could find what they wanted. They found first, as others had found, that a cow inherits productive capacity from both dam and sire. They found further that, as regards quantity of milk, a cow gets seven-tenths of her inheritance from whichever parent has the higher inheritance; as regards butterfat percentage, four-tenths of her inheritance from whichever parent is higher. The dam's inheritance was obvious from her output. The problem...
...grandchildren's children. Total: 77. Grandson Ross Minkler, pastor of the Church of God of Los Angeles, has 100 kinsmen in his congregation. There has been but one death in Grandma Ellen's family in 26 years. That was her husband Abner, schoolteacher, farmer and sire...