Word: plains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...railbirds had underestimated a plain brown filly, Congressman Richard Kleberg's Ciencia (Spanish for Science, her dam's name), who was bred on the vast open spaces of his family's famed King Ranch,** Coming into the stretch, Ciencia, who had been trailing like a dogie up to the half-mile pole, suddenly rushed up,*** swept past the leaders, Porter's Mite and Bessie Franzheim's Xalapa Clown. When the dust had settled, 50,000 gasping spectators realized that a filly had won the Santa Anita Derby for the first time...
Author Binns, himself a descendant of an Oregon Trailer, centres his story on a family of Illinois farmers who made the trip in 1852. His characters are plain folk, not fancy Indian-fighters and adventurers. His Indians are mostly beggars and hangers-on, a menace only to horses, cows and the pioneers' imaginations. The real enemies are cholera, diarrhea, dust, heat, rivers, white bandits, traders, quarreling among themselves. Out of jealousy, the caravan captain ruthlessly abandons a middleaged, kindly schoolteacher in the desert. But he is efficient, and he does not, like many another captain, abandon women...
Thus, Mr. Ryan's achievements were clearly of much greater importance than merely informing the public of Harvard sports. Consequently, now that has an opportunity to view his accomplishments it becomes plain that--seen in the perspective of recent Harvard history--his services have been invaluable...
...Plain, long-nosed, sandy-haired young Governor Ray Baldwin of Connecticut, who has a grand bass voice and reintroduced "frugality" to the U. S. vocabulary last month, made the statement of the evening. Said he: "There is no substitute for a good job in private industry...
...Square lay still and dark in the cool Roman night. But lights still burned in the windows of the Vatican palaces, to the right of the Square and its long Bernini colonnades. One light shone dimly. In the small second-story chamber which it illuminated, on a plain brass bed, a weary old man lay breathing heavily. A black-cowled monk, a silent doctor kept vigil...