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...tacked and veered and took many wrong courses (for much of which I was to blame)-the fog suddenly lifted and disclosed a blank wall of a seemingly impassable cliff-the decision in the Schechter case. The problem now is not to pick up its wreckage but to steer a course around that barrier...
...unable to absolve Rear Admiral Sidney Bailey from all blame. He adopted an unusual procedure in directing the Hood and Renown to steer definite courses so close. ... It was incumbent on him at the proper moment to make a further signal to re-form his squadron...
...pilot of the steamboat Natchez in 1870 when she lost her historic race with the Robert E. Lee for the title of the fastest boat on the Mississippi River; of a heart attack; in St. Louis, Mo. Pilot Barnett's alibi: the captain by mistake ordered him to steer into a bayou...
...inhabitants, 115,000,000 hogs, cattle, sheep and calves from the plains of Texas to the clover fields of Iowa go annually to market. . . . At the slaughterhouse, in the dim bluish light of the knocking pens, a Negro swings his three-pound hammer. Crack! On the steer's skull midway between the scared eyes the blow falls. Great shackles swing down to lift the limp stunned animal, head down, rump high. The short curved knife bites deep into the bristled neck seeking the throbbing artery. Into great cans oozes the dark red blood, 70 Ib. to the steer. . . . Pigs...
...Never before could any breed fancier lay claim to so proud a boast. When all the judging was done in the new Temple of Agriculture, black Aberdeen Anguses had waddled off with every top and reserve (second place) prize in every one of the interbreed classes: best 4-H steer (raised by junior farmers), best steer, best herd (of three), best carlot, best get-of-sire (three by the same bull), best carcass. Anguses took a total of ten top carcass prizes in both light and heavy classes. Named Grand Champion Steer?foremost prize of the show?was Campus Idol...