Word: fer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dollar." He mortgaged his crop, his next year's crop, his 20,000 acres of lien-free land. Next year the Delta went broke. Towne's banker wired that he would have to sell. Towne wired back "NO." "I ain't aiming to sell hit fer less'n hit's wuth," he said. "But," said the banker, "all it's worth is what the market says it is." "The market is them New York fellers," said Old Man Towne. "Whut do they know about whut cotton's wuth? They ain't never...
...take none of our advice--allus hev to larn the hard way--but don't come whinnying to us if you get a saddle burn. The old Lazy H is one o' the best spreads agoin' 'round these parts, dern few fences and a heap of ground fer roamin'. You'll all be stabled up at the Yard the fust year, but outside o' thet yore branding is up to yoreselves...
Thet's 'bout all fer now, colts,--be seein' you 'round the range...
...Well, Mr. Young," said Paw, "hit don't seem just right fer you to stand in the way of a man's bettering hisself...
...last week's tournament was some thing of a milestone in U. S. figure skating. Among this year's contestants there were none who could hold a candle to Sonja Henie (ten times world's champion), Karl Schäfer (seven times world's champion), nor even Megan Taylor (current world's champion). But in the novice class was a perky 13-year-old, Anne Robinson, a collateral descendant of Jackson Haines. Little Anne has been skating only three years, but she won the Eastern championship four weeks ago. Last week, in her first national...