Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decline in newspaper circulation (due to publishing costs) has alarmed the Soviet leaders. In some townships, every peasant owning a cow must subscribe to a Soviet paper...
...they will hold an interdormitory regatta that will probably take place on Monday and Tuesday, November 5 and 6. After the regattas have been held and the regular season closed for most crews some men will be permitted to row in sculls and a few eights will continue to cow as long as the weather permits...
Children in rural Illinois are to go to school in the cow pasture and the cornfield during their Summer vacations. Each child may choose some line of practical activity. His work will be checked up by District Superintendents and teachers and he will receive academic credit for successful completion. The purpose of the plan is to dignify farm labor...
...Story. Eighteen sixty-seven. Texas?immense, unorganized, full of cattle for which no profitable market could be found, cattle-rustlers, land-poor cow-barons and original sin. The Del Sol ranch?sole owner, Anastasie ("Taisie") Lockhart, redhaired, beautiful, 20-year-old orphan ?her father, Burleson Lockhart, had been murdered some years previously. Broke like the rest of Texas, Taisie was at her wits' end. Her cow hands were faithful, but she couldn't carry on forever with no money to pay them. Enter the mysterious Dan McMasters, sheriff of Gonzales, son of Burleson Lockhart's best friend...
...Covered Wagon, was cinematized to great advantage this year, died in Chicago three months ago (TIME, May 5) aged 66. He was born in Newton, of pioneer parentage. He was a graduate of the University of Iowa and began his career as a lawyer in White Oaks, a cow-town "where undertakers were more in demand than lawyers." Later he settled in Chicago, practicing law and writing, in his spare time, for out-of-doors periodicals. The Mississippi Bubble made his first real success in the literary field?other books include The Story of the Cowboy, (praised by Theodore Roosevelt...