Word: corralling
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...represents. Questioned by the Senate Commerce Committee as to the opinion of the independent companies on the proposed Communications Committee, he vehemently protested that the members of his association "prefer to remain hitched up with the railroad organizations [I. C. C.] than to be driven into the same corral with the kicking and biting herd that is known as the radio industry...
...industry. He learned, however, that the Government would allow a certain contract, due to expire in 1914, to succeed to a white man. Lomen secured it and on the day of his succession founded the Lomen Reindeer Corp. The new company instituted reforms at once, substituted the corral for the lasso,† built a cold storage plant and proper houses for herdsmen. The problems of marking, slaughtering, packing and shipping, which had never occured to the Eskimos, were studied...
Lately U. S. Indian agents, weary with much swamp-chasing, returned to Washington, reported only the slowest progress in their century-old attempt to corral the Seminoles. Asked Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur: "How long have these Indians been taking care of themselves?" "As long as we have known anything about them," was the reply...
...technique of catching wild horses consists in camping near them until they have become comparatively tolerant of the proximity of man, then in edging them slowly toward the corral. The corral has a funnel shaped entrance wide at the outside. Into the wide part troop the unsuspecting horses, then the passageway narrows and soon they pour through the funnel's spout and into the pen. Last week Catcher Skelton and his band, either because of natural exuberance or because of the upsetting effect of a bad thunderstorm, stampeded a bunch of horses on their way to the corral. There...
...with hearty laughter by the Other Side, but Mr. Raskob was answered with jeers and booes for concluding his prediction with the following statement: "This leaves States with 184 votes, every one of which is fighting ground, and there is good indication that the Democratic ticket will corral over 100 of these...