Word: bulles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workers like Miss Charlotte Carr, head of Hull House, were foremost in the draft-Ickes drive. They want to smash the celebrated Nash-Kelly machine. If New York City smashed Tammany with a Fusion ticket led by Fiorello LaGuardia, why couldn't Chicago do likewise under an old Bull-Mooser, a New Dealer, a grand-scale benefactor of Chicago like Harold Ickes? From his PWA the city has received $60,000,000 for a new sewer system, $8,000,000 (last week) for housing and $18,000,000 for that hallmark of modernity which even Moscow has but which...
...were first imported from Scotland in 1878 by the Lake Forest, Ill. cattle firm of Anderson & Findlay. Only a few years before, a white-haired Scottish landowner named William McCombie had developed the short-necked, squat, hornless, soot-black creatures. In Lake Forest, Anderson & Findlay's big Angus bull had soon serviced five Angus cows, and before long other breeders, in Kansas and in Iowa, were adding Aberdeen-Angus to their herds. The blacks began taking prizes, first at local shows, then at the Chicago Fat Show, then at the first International. In latter-day Internationals, when yearlings began...
...same as in 1793. Unchanged are its astronomical and tide charts, its page of "Poetry, Anecdotes and Pleasantries." It has articles on molasses silage, fertilizer, a recipe for eggnog pie. Under "December hath 31 days," a reader may still glean such nuggets from the recent past as "Sitting Bull killed in fight between Soldiers and Indians...
...however, declined to smell the flowers, and started, to charge at the officers. It was a case of either the bull or the "bulls"; the latter...
...bull escaped from a Brighton Stock yard, and after being mistaken by at least one motorist for a hippopotamus, attracted the attention of police. The officers of the law chased him to his impromptu field of battle and finally surrounded...