Word: ranch
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...made me cherish a deep and warm affection for him, and I resolved then to repay him for his kindness at the very first opportunity; this opportunity, however, did not offer itself until two years after I had left college, at which time I was on my uncle's ranch in Kansas. One evening, about seven o'clock, a gentleman stopped at the house inquired for uncle, and asked him whether he could accommodate him for the night, and in the morning give him a horse to ride and a guide to show him the way to Fairfield, a village...
...ranch and sheep to raise...
...Vassar woman was created chiefly to write little poems on tinted paper; to torture "classical" music out of grand pianos; to furnish paragraphs and jokes to the provincial papers, and to be adored by Yale Freshmen. The old man Vassar made a big mistake when he founded that Poughkeepsie ranch, for the ungrateful young dames who go there persistently ignore the very best thing that Matthew ever produced in his life - his beer. - Acta Columbiana...