Word: buckboard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among his colleagues, Father Berard's erudition (he has written 17 scientific works on the Indians) earned him the title "Scholar to the Navajo." but his Indian flock affectionately called him "Yazzie" (Shortie). For decades he traveled the barren reservation by buckboard and horseback, preaching and studying and helping St. Michael's build up a network of schools, clinics and churches to care for some 11,500 baptized Catholics...
...little old lady in the crisp white Mother Hubbard and blue gingham sunbonnet looked out of place in Palm Springs, California's gold-plated winter playground for Hollywood stars and Eastern industrialists. So did her horse-drawn buckboard with its "Nellie's Boarding House" sign. Nevertheless, as she rode along Palm Canyon Drive with her two middle-aged sons by her side, the towns people lined the street to wave. They were well aware that without Nellie Coffman the town might not have been what it is today...
...bomb-pocked roads of Europe, the trucks which moved in radiator-to-buckboard line were wearing out at a rate so fantastic that the actual number is still a military secret. In the northwest sector alone, 5,000 new tires were needed daily...
Into North Tarrytown, N.Y. at the tiller of his 1902 Anderson electric, rolled John D. Rockefeller Jr., to dedicate 17th-Century Phillipse Manor House as a colonial memorial (he gave $300,000 for its reconstruction). Next to him sat Mrs. Rockefeller; following in a buckboard were Daughter-in-law Mrs. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller and three of her five. The procession wound up with matched Percherons drawing three wagonloads of Pocantico Hills residents. Said Restorer Rockefeller: "To me this has . . . been ... a labor of love ... in the interest of my neighbors and friends in the Tarrytowns, among whom I have lived...
Penn moved smoothly in the first 20 minutes, and picked up a 13-point lead in methodical fashion. With Sophomore Chink Crossin, fleet as a deer, netting 11 points, and a Crimson offense non-existent, the Quakers had little trouble in staying ahead. They controlled all the buckboard play. For Harvard, only Jack Torgan, who couldn't seem to miss, was able to find...