Word: cowhand
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...which a cow once acquired a limp by getting stuck in the mud) is 36 square miles of volcanic rock on the southwestern slope of Pikes Peak. There, half-century ago, men's fortunes boiled as furiously as had the prehistoric lava which formed the plateau. A cowhand named Bob Womack, after digging so many holes that he endangered the lives of his employers' cattle, made the first strike in 1891, went on a spree, and discovered next morning that he had sold his claim for $500. Since then some $381,000,000 in gold has been taken...
...composer can attain an authentically U. S. symphonic style, a spare, gangling, twangy Oklahoman named Roy Harris may well be the man. Born in a log cabin, Roy Harris is as independent as a Panhandle cowhand, as dryly American as the Dust Bowl where he spent his early childhood. When, in 1926, he ap peared in Eastern concert halls with an awkward, homemade symphonic piece un der his arm, critics took one look and de cided that here was music's own Joaquin Miller. Sent to Paris to study with famed Teacher Nadia Boulanger (TIME, Feb.28, 1938), Composer Harris...
General College's dean is squarejawed, 46-year-old Malcolm Shaw MacLean, who had been a cowhand, college teacher and night editor of the Minneapolis Tribune before he began to build his new kind of college, which he calls "The University of Tomorrow." Believing that college courses had become too specialized for most students, he taught his misfits such broad subjects as biography, "euthenics" (problems of the home). He also undertook to find out all he could about his students-their home life, incomes, diversions, problems, hopes. But Dr. MacLean soon decided that knowing his students' present status...
...political measure Garner is a good-natured loblolling cowhand who, through the political hocus-pocus that nowadays passes for government, has been drawing his breath, cigar and salary for seven years, and saying nothing, because he knows nothing, while twelve million people have had the opportunity, on relief, to become inured to the blessings of government by "the common people...
...match at poker, no man, not even the late convivial Nick Longworth, enjoyed such influence among members on both sides of the aisle in both Houses as this stubby, stubborn, pink & white billiken with the beak of an owl, eyebrows like cupid's-wings, tongue of a cowhand. He takes Capitol freshmen aside and instructs them philosophically. "Now, Scott," he said, for example, to Senator Lucas of Illinois, "first thing to do is to get other Senators' respect, if you have to fight 'em twice a day. After you get their respect you'll have their...