Word: subs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canadian cattlemen wanted a new breed of cattle. They wanted a breed that could withstand the sub-zero winters and swirling blizzards of the western provinces. In a storm, cattle huddled with their hindquarters facing the wind, and often smothered in the thick snow. When recumbent cows and steers tried to get up, they instinctively tried to raise their hindquarters first. Often they fell on their faces, starved to death...
...gridmen started off like a smoldering house, picking up power after an initial loss to Tufts by one point. They dropped Rochester, lost to a dynamite New London Sub Base outfit, then smeared Coast Guard, smashed the Merchant Marine Academy, upset Brown, and ran up 60 points against...
Alec Templeton (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). A summer sub for Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen, the pixyish blind pianist features his musical satires and spontaneous improvisations...
...ticked ceaselessly. It kept a card index on all voters, saw that every true believer paid a poll tax and cast a ballot, discouraged all heathen who could not be converted to the Crump gospel. If it had occasionally voted a few dead men, or juggled ballots in the sub-basement of the impressive Shelby County Courthouse, it did so piously and only as a minor emergency measure...
...sub-committee of five nations named by the Council to investigate the Spanish situation issued its invitations after a two hour secret meeting at which documents already submitted were studied. The committee recessed until 3 P. M. Monday...