Word: veterinarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy's rugged mountains, mules and horses can go where a jeep can not go. So these animals, worth a few hundred dollars each in the U.S., are priceless in Italy. Each pack train has its own veterinarian to give first aid. He also decides which wounded animals must be shot, which can be hospitalized. The wounded are moved to the rear, usually tied between healthy animals. Then they are shipped in trucks to the base hospital, an abandoned farm.* There a concrete-floored paddock serves as a ward for wounded and a few sick animals (mules sometimes suffer...
...jampacked with the "tangled elements of Western man's spiritual history," from the Mosaic tablets to the New Deal. Author Mumford is usually dogmatic, often insensitive, occasionally discerning. Sometimes he writes with the vehemence of an Old Testament prophet, sometimes with the horse sense of a veterinarian...
...gray fox was recently presented to the Bronx Zoo by an up-State Italian farmer. The zoo's veterinarian remarked about the fine condition of the animal and asked the farmer, "What have you been feeding him?" "He eat the spaghett--lotsa spaghett. Slop like for the pigs, too," the farmer replied. The veterinarian said he never saw a better fox, according to Animal Kingdom, the Bronx Zoo's bulletin.--N. Y. Times...
...tore her to ribbons and she was still trying to rise and fight back. She had run from the Colonel that morning and made a beeline for the spot where she usually met me, and she fought this big dog for what she considered her rightful place. The veterinarian, who likes us both, says he will see her well and will intercede to give her another chance...
...colicky cow in Ithaca, N.Y., a veterinarian prescribed stiff doses of kerosene. Farmer Royden M. Vose tried to buy four quarts, ran into rationing trouble, finally talked a dealer into letting him supply the coupons later. He sent a letter to the Office of Price Administration office in Syracuse. No answer. Off went another letter. This time back came an OPA questionnaire to be filled...