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While a monster bull from Assyria was exciting admiration on one side of Chicago last week (see p. 23) a chunky little steer from New York was being admired on another side of town, at the annual International Livestock Exposition in Union Stockyards. He was Briarcliff Thickset, a glossy Aberdeen Angus eleven months old, whose 1,140 lb. of bone, gristle and good red meat were formed so well and in such good condition that the judges named him world's grand champion, Steer of the Year. Being a steer, Briarcliff Thickset was good for nothing but the slaughter...
...fortnight ago Sir Arthur Keith remarked: "Nature keeps her human orchard healthy by pruning and war is her pruning hook." This was during his rectorial address at the University of Aberdeen, and was the mature judgment of a great anthropologist, the 1927 president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science...
...Cameron Wilson who came from Aberdeen, Scotland to attend the meeting said: "I have attained a peace that material things, even loss of money, cannot influence...
...Aberdeen, Scotland, Scot Robert Bruce saw his barn on fire, rushed in to save his cows. As he went in for the last one, he was overcome by smoke, but saw the animal he was after dash by him in a panic. Hazily Robert Bruce reached up, grasped the animal's tail, was dragged in a hurry into the open...
...Aberdeen...