Word: boas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cowboys could find a boa-constrictor that bucked, they'd saddle him up for the Round-up", said Mr. Furlong, "for they try to ride any animal that has a buck in it". The worst of all are the bucking buffaloes, which no one has ever been known to stick to. Bucking bulls are the next hardest, particularly as the saddle is put as far back as possible "to get everything that's in the bull in the way of a buck, out". The most famous of these animals was Sharkey, who was black, weighted a ton and a half...
...them would be willing to ask a dairyman if his cows were Leghorns. And when six per cent do not know what an Artichoke is, while six more assert it to be a fish, three a lizard, and one, no doubt thinking of the strangling powers (choke) of a boa constrictor, claims it as denoting a snake we cannot help but wonder in what world these sixteen per cent receive their information--or lack of it." And of especial interest to Harvard men is the following quotation from the article...