Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...author went to his brother's cattle ranch on the bank of a river in Oklahoma territory at the age of ten. He made the acquaintance of cow-boys. Indians, and bandits, and at the age of nineteen served as a cow-boy himself on the range in New Mexico and Colorado. He tells about his picturesque life in the most human and likeable fashion, and his West is even more exciting than that of flashy novels and photoplays because it has the convincing spirit of reality and historical correctness. Mr. Collins' plea for authentic portrayal of conditions and life...
...milk cow sets on eggs...
Notice your snake, hog, cow and eggs exhibited on Page 8 your issue Sept. 3. Here is a Texas version of this poem extant in these parts...
Neither were camera men flayed on behalf of Elizabeth, Duchess of York or her daughter "Baby Betty," for whom the Duke of York last week bought a new Alderney cow. Just now Duchess and Babe are the two most flatteringly snap-shotted Royalties in England...
...Cows. Dr. Millikan's abstractions were the exception, not the rule. Other reports dealt with some of these practical benefits derived from pure science. Francis Howard Car of England, president of the society, reported experiments indicating that the stock-carrying capacity of pastures and consequently their output of meat or milk may be increased to an unexpectedly high level. One-half an acre of grass intensively treated with nitrates for the purpose suffices as a substitute for the usual two or three acres required to graze a cow or its equivalent for a season...