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...tail from which hangs a plume with which she drives off the flies so that they cannot fall in the milk. The head has for its aim to have horns and that the mouth can be somewhere. The horns are there for horning, the mouth for chewing a cud. Under the cow hangs the milk and it is arranged to be milked. When people milk, the milk comes and there is never an end to the reserve. I have never learned how she makes more and more milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Opinion | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...that there is fresh air out in the country. The mister cow is called a beef; he is not a mammal. The cow does not eat much, but what she eats, she eats it twice, that is why she has always enough. When she is hungry she chews a cud and when she does not say anything, that is that her stomach is full of food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Opinion | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

Largest pet on display was Clover Leaf. a cow. Oldest were two tortoises claimed to be 350-500 years old. Smallest was an unidentified fish. Loudest was Susie, the Sebastopol goose. Most desperate were 462 squeaking canaries lodged in a crate exhibit. Most indifferent were two Llamas, who chewed cud quietly for five days. Most valuable per pound were two lion-headed goldfish valued at $500 each. Youngest were a litter of white mice born just as the show closed. Most popular was a baby elephant known variously as Bozo, Buddy and Buck. Least popular was a timid young skunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Pet Show | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

...last week, was a world-wide gain in commodities. The most important gain was that registered in silver. The only calm thing about the Bombay silver bullion exchange is the sacred cow which, fat and lazy, spends most of her time in somnambulistic repose, blinking sadly and chewing her cud. During the Depression the sacred cow has seen many disconcerting things. Silver has dropped from 1929's high of 57½? to the historic low of 25½?per fine ounce. The only notable interruption was the remarkable corner staged last year by Chimauram Motilal, aged Hindu who drives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Markets | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

Barthelomo (shifting his cud of tobacco) : Listen son. Les' not get in an argument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 12, 1931 | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

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