Word: winton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harrow, Ont., at the annual Dominion egg-laying contest, George A. Winton's hen suddenly stopped laying, began growing wattles and a comb, before the contest was over had turned into a rooster...
When Berley Winton, poultry expert of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, was informed by the Press last week that a Japanese farmer named Kichi Fujikura claimed a new world's record of 361 eggs in a year for his Leghorn hen, he grudgingly exclaimed: "That's mighty fine, but the farmer's claims are unofficial. We don't recognize them...
...Expert Winton proudly pointed to an official mark of 360 eggs, set by a Corvallis, Ore. Leghorn in 1934-35. Questioned further, he consulted his records, discovered that the official world's champion was a Black Orpington which laid 363 eggs in New Zealand...
...Bruce Winton Knight-Knopf...
...first chapter of this harsh and hair-raising little book, Author Bruce Winton Knight, professor of economics at Dartmouth, gravely announces his argument: "Thus far in human history no formula has proved equal to the task of preventing more or less extended periods of peace." Purporting to solve that problem, How to Run a War is an ingenious pacifist tour de force, addressed to wealthy and politically powerful U. S. citizens who are "primarily responsible for American policies and opinions." As such, the book is filled with material that is likely to frighten good pacifists out of their wits...