According to an employment outlook report released today by USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and Purdue University, there is an average of 35,400 new U.S. graduates with a bachelor's degree or higher in agriculture related fields, 22,500 short of the jobs available annually.
The English word ' cat ' (Old English catt) is in origin a loanword, introduced to many languages of Europe from Latin cattus and Byzantine Greek ÎºÎ¬ÏÏÎ±, including Portuguese and Spanish gato, French chat, German Katze, Lithuanian katÄ, and Old Church Slavonic kotka, among others.
Etymology[edit] A slang phrase coined by Thomas A. Dorgan. The phrase became popular in the U.S. in the 1920s, along with the bee's knees, the cat's whiskers (possibly from the use of these in radio crystal sets). In the 1920s the word cat was used as a term to describe the unconventional flappers from the jazz era. This was combined with the word pajamas (a relatively new fashion in the 1920s) to form a phrase used to describe something that is the best at what it does, thus making it highly sought and desirable. Similar phrases that didn't endure: the eel's ankle, the elephant's instep, and the snake's hip.