Word: udders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...straight line to a fixed point on the inside of the 13th rib determined by measuring off ten inches in a straight line from the center of the protruding edge of the 13th thoracic vertebra, but in making the cut no more than one (i) inch of cod or udder fat shall be left on the flank side of the loin. The 10-inch measurement shall be made from the center of the protruding edge of the 13th thoracic vertebra and not from the hollow of the chine bone where the 13th rib joins the 13th thoracic vertebra." Said Nebraska...
...older generation have learned a patois that passes for English, but they retain sentence structures from Yiddish (Pa Gross, protesting a torrent of talk: "Like a machine is gung the tunks. Like a sobvay is coming the woids-tukk, tukk, tukk!"). They put extra consonants in certain words-"udder" for or, "paintner" for painter, "finndish" for finish. They say "chonging" for charging, "serrisfied" for satisfied, "tenner" for tenant...
...When milk streams frothily from udder to bucket, it contains much dissolved oxygen. In raw milk, bacteria then consume most of the oxygen. But pasteurization removes most of the bacteria, so the oxygen content of pasteurized milk remains high. Oxidation of the fat content may then cause papery, oily, metallic or tallowy flavors; worse, it may diminish the natural proportion of vitamin C. Obvious answer, proposed by scientists at Cornell University: take the air out of the milk. They announced development of vacuum equipment which de-aerates 1,500 quarts...
...they develop from the union of sperm cells and egg cells. Next comes the reproduction of fish and frogs, a barnyard view of chickens and cows. After the cow comes man. Dr. Levine bridges the gap with two pictures: a mother nursing her baby, a calf nuzzling at the udder...
...eggs spurt out into a pan. Males are stripped of their milt in the same way, and when the eggs and milt are brought together, fertilization takes place quickly. But experts say that stripping a fighting, kicking steelhead is "like trying to milk a galloping cow with a greased udder." When the fish struggle hardest, large batches of eggs and milt may be sprayed out helter-skelter and lost...