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Word: ranched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ranch at San Simeon, Calif. Publisher William Randolph Hearst went up in a Stinson monoplane for what was said to be his first flight since the early days of barnstorming aviators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Flights & Flyers, Mar. 16, 1931 | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...strong). It failed to get him along on Old Joe Pulitzer's Post-Dispatch, where as an assistant telegraph operator he once demanded a $3 raise in vain. But he left Pulitzer and not many years later was confronting Old Man Scripps on the latter's ranch at Miramar. Calif. Part of the Scripps plain-people complex was plain clothes. Roy Howard has always liked fancy clothes and at this first meeting with his employer, he was at his fanciest. The great man scowled down at his midget caller and in their ensuing conversation sought to squelch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: World's End | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

Dirty rat-nutty judge-hoodlum-lazy blood-sucking jobber- William Halitosis Thompson-blustering loudmouth, irresponsible mountebank-blubbering jungle hippopotamus-lurching, shambling imbecile-flabby jowls of a barnyard hog-two jackass ears, a cowboy hat and an empty space between-chambermaid in a ranch bunkhouse-skunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Chicago Circus | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

Suit Won. By Col. Zack T. Miller, owner of the 101 Ranch circus; against Cinemactor Tom Mix. Col. Miller charged that Actor Mix had agreed to appear in his circus, had joined instead the Sells-Floto circus. Col. Miller asked $325,000 damages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 2, 1931 | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

...near the Cuyamaca Mts. To try a blind landing would be insane. The instruments froze; the magneto began to misbehave. Pilot Nettleton made his decision. He leveled off, throttled down, cut his switch, rolled out the door, waited and pulled his ripcord. Pilot Nettleton landed near a ranch-house in Pine Valley (in time to share Thanksgiving dinner with the occupants) -no speed champion, but possibly the youngest member of the Caterpillar Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Dec. 8, 1930 | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

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