Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Willacy County, which lies almost at the southernmost tip of Texas, Luther Blanton, 57, and his son John, 24, went duck hunting one day fortnight ago. They went only a little distance from their own land, but they crossed a fence to get to a lagoon on the great King Ranch. They should not have done that. The King Ranch comprises 1,250,000 acres, four-fifths the size of Delaware, and belongs to the Klebergs who inherited it from their Grandfather Richard King, who founded it before the Civil War. With their 125,000 head of red Santa Gertrudis...
...husked fast but carelessly. His creditable total of 1,630 lb. was cut down to 1,466 by penalties. Well short of the Byczynski gross but a shade ahead of his net was the score of a long-faced, 38-year-old Iowan who, dressed in tennis shoes, white duck pants and an undershirt, had husked his rows more slowly but with scrupulous care. He was Carl Carlson, brother of famed Elmer, who did not bother to defend his title this year. Carl Carlson's gross of 1,540 lb. left him with...
...their tricks are quite Klein. Jameson bottles will McTernen heads, and while Green squad of Yale Beckwith Daughters in Blue stands, John's players will make ball fly like Kelleybeans. We don't Fearon, and we'll make them look like stiff, cold Oakes in Winter. The Duck Pond is frozen over and there is no New Haven for Allen players to rest in. Watt do you say on score? I asked Pope last Spring and he said Hessberg in Italy could not aFord to bet. Take some Staples out of Huey's nailbox and put it on Crimson, Kessler...
Australia's aborigines thought that koalas were reincarnations of their dead babies, never dreamed of harming them. A cuddly, button-nosed little creature with furry ears and an affectionate disposition, the koala-along with such other Australian curiosities as wombats, wallaroos, kookaburras and the duck-billed platypus -thrived until white men came. When Chile's supply of chinchilla began to run low, hunters and trappers swarmed out through the Australian bush, slaughtered koalas by tens of thousands, shipped their hides off to the U. S. to be made into cheap fur coats or women's bags, belts...
Last fortnight Motorman Chrysler & superintendent were summoned to appear in Baltimore's Federal District Court to answer three charges: 1) failure to plug their repeating shotguns to three-shell capacity; 2) failure to have Federal duck stamps on their hunting licenses; 3) shooting over a baited area (TIME, Oct. 26). Each offense was punishable by $500 fine, six months' imprisonment...