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...teachers' meeting in Cleveland, Professor Max D. Steer of Purdue University produced graphs of Adolf Hitler's clod-compelling voice. The wave frequency of the Führer's frenetic shouts in a typical sentence: 228 vibrations a second-eight more, according to one authority, than the average person's in anger. Said Professor Steer: "It is this high pitch and its accompanying emotion that puts the German people in a passive state...
...emphasized that although they had a terrific brain, the rest of their body was pretty poor. "Notice that one," he said sympathetically. "His fins flap the wrong way for some reason, and he can't steer to save his neck...
...Angus. It was called Mercer, was 22 months old, and was owned by Irene Brown, 14, who had bought it last January for $60. Then, on the Exposition's fourth day, British Judge William John Cumber stepped into the arena to judge the show's Grand Champion steer. In the ring were the four finalists-a Hereford and three Aberdeen-Angus, including Mercer, champions of their respective weight classes. Judge Cumber passed his sensitive hands over well-meated sides, carefully examined shoulders and rumps, circled again & again. At last he pointed to Irene Brown's Angus...
Irene Brown was the first girl to own or exhibit a Grand Champion steer, and Judge Cumber called it a wonderful achievement." Said Irene: "I have just one thing to say to the girls ... we can do anything on the farm or in the city that the men can." When her steer, which won about $900 in prize money, was prodded out of the Amphitheatre's doors two days later, it was auctioned off at $3,785-$3.35 for every one of its 1,130 lb., the highest price fetched since 1929. Shortly Mercer will go, as all steers...
Most significant news of last week's Exposition, however, was not Mercer or the price paid for him, but the fact that he was the 23rd Aberdeen-Angus to win the single steer Grand Championship. Most upstart of all U. S. cattle breeds, purebred Angus were first imported from Scotland in 1878 by the Lake Forest, Ill. cattle firm of Anderson & Findlay. Only a few years before, a white-haired Scottish landowner named William McCombie had developed the short-necked, squat, hornless, soot-black creatures. In Lake Forest, Anderson & Findlay's big Angus bull had soon serviced five...