Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Colorado. Governor-elect William H. Adams, onetime cowboy, announced that he would not wear full dress at his inaugural ball on Jan. 11. His friends explained that he was afraid of catching his spurs in the coattails. "I never compromise with principle," said Mr. Adams, who is pleased to wear his cowpunching regalia whenever possible. "I never have worn full dress, and I never will, if it's what I think...
Errata. Subsequent examination of the fossil discovered last autumn at Trinil, Java (TIME, Oct. 11), and reported everywhere as another skull of Pithecanthropus erectus, the Java apeman, showed the relic to be an elephant's knee cap. The "Southwestern Colorado Man," lately deduced from a set of Eocene teeth, was a myth, the teeth having proved to be those of an antique horse.?Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, Smithsonian Institution...
...northeastern Colorado, men armed themselves with clubs, flocked to Fort Morgan, ranged in a wide-flung line over the prairie, herded 2,000 wild rabbits-pestilential to crops-into a wire enclosure, waded among them, slew all, eagerly looked forward to another field day the "mammoth bunny slaughter of the Denver Post Brush Civic Club, occasion for an annual holiday in northeastern Colorado...
...will serve as Chairman of the Committee. The other elected committeemen are. Ellsworth Charles Haggerty of Allston; William Partridge Ellison of Newton; Bayard Livingston Kilgour of Cincinnati, Ohio; Carl Gustave Ture Lundell of Dorchester; John New bold Robinson of Wakefield, Rhode Island, and Joseph Delano Hitch Jr. of Denver, Colorado...
Joseph Delano Hitch Jr. of Denver, Colorado...