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Word: limo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Klondike prospector, soldier of fortune; of coronary thrombosis; in Santa Barbara, Calif. At various times a cowboy, stagecoach-guard and deputy sheriff, Burnham fought in campaigns against the Apaches, in South Africa's bloody Matabele Wars (which he virtually ended singlehanded by killing the Matabele god M'Limo in a cave), and in the Boer War. Back home in California, he struck it rich in the oil business, spent the rest of his life in prosperous comfort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 15, 1947 | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

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