Word: rancher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...education that is duplicated nowhere else in the world. "What we're trying to teach the boys," says Livestock Expert George. Reid, "is the sense of making a sound, systematic decision. That's useful in any walk of life, but if a boy is a rancher, buying stock or buying meat, this training applies specifically...
...Hampton's 3,000-acre farm near Decatur, Tex. last week, a three-year-old Black Angus became the most valuable bull in the world. To Owners Hampton and Urban Simon. Rancher Jack Danciger of Fort Worth handed a check for a one-third interest in Prince 105 SAF. Price of Danciger's one-third interest...
...first novel in two years. The scene is old California, but it is still that familiar woman's world which is largely devoted to men. Two beauties, one Spanish, one Irish, become friends, and all goes well until a man comes between them. He is an Oxford-educated rancher, but a Don Juan rather than a don. One of the girls ropes him, of course. The other gets a consolation prize: a mere unlarned cow poke, he is, who did not even get to Cambridge. Miss Harriet Townshend is vintage Kathleen Norris-sweet, inoffensive, forgettable...
Fred arranged to rent the site from the rancher who owned it (with a verbal agreement to give him 15% of any commercial ore mined), and began to dig for buried treasure. He had only the barest knowledge of mining practices, and for three years he worked alone, hacking away with a pick and a crude handdrill. Many Saturdays Martha Schwartzwalder swept the school floors and washed blackboards so her husband could work on his mine. It was a grinding, grueling job. On the last four unblazed miles to the minesite, everything had to be carried by hand. Twice...
...contrapuntal arrangement of Brubeck's character has a strong bass of common sense and energy-perhaps because his father was a rancher and cattle buyer. His life also has its flights of lyricism-perhaps because his mother was a music teacher with dreams of being a concert pianist, or perhaps only because he grew up among the green Western hills. But above all these, there are high, hammering, urgent notes-and that may be because Dave Brubeck always seems to be looking for something...