Word: bullocks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Station Agent. Some score of years ago there was a young railroad ticket agent in Derbyshire. He had a great ambition to be a scientist, but he had no money for an education. So he sat and ate out his heart behind a ticket window. His name was Bullock...
...Young Bullock had a friend named Gye who had some money. Gye liked Bullock and pretty soon Gye died. Having " faith in Bullock, he left him a legacy on the condition that he take the name of Gye. So Bullock became Gye. He studied at Edinburgh University under Dr. Bennett, a cancer expert. Then he began research. "For the last two years he hasn't had a holiday-Sundays, Christmas or any other...
...following members of the faculty and their wives will be present: Professor and Mrs. C. J. Bullock, Professor and Mrs. T. N. Carver, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Chamberlain, Professor A. C. Coolidge, Mr. W. A. Ellis, Mr. Charles Fairman, Mr. R. S. Fanning, Dr. W. H. Geer, Mr. C. A. Gregory, Professor and Mrs. C. H. Harvey, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Jordan, Mr. B. H. Kuhns, Mr. E. S. Mason, Professor and Mrs. R. S. Merian, Professor and Mrs. R. B. Merriman, Dr. and Mrs. D. C. Parmenter, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Russell...
...Black Norfolk bounded, attacked; White Gibbons stepped lightly out, stepped briskly in, drove his fists against the sleek black ribs, the shiny black face. The fifth round came. No longer did the black man attack. Just before the bell rang he fell down on his knees like a bullock. In the sixth round a right to the jaw sent him down again; he lugged himself up, wobbled for a moment, sank to the boards. Referee Tommy Sheridan stopped the bout, lifted high the hand of Thomas Gibbons...
...Captain Bullock, of course, may really have made his cruise and his observations, like the savant Humboldt, in all good faith: but there is also a very even chance that he is a member of that other illustrious school so ably represented by the intrepid explorer, Captain Walter Traprock. If he is, he ought to be indicted, or something, for not only is Captain Traprock sufficient for his field, but also in recent weeks even his material has become slightly cloying...