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Word: rancher (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Texans not knowing how to ride horses, well, that isn't exactly true, but why should a rancher with excess cash ride one anyway when he can ride in a Cadillac? . . . BILL F. BROWN Longview...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 6, 1953 | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

...cost a lot of money for new equipment, 2) make it necessary for children to travel longer distances to class. Many farmers just feel like the Holt County rancher who explained last week: "My grandpa learned in that there little school. So did I, and so did my kids. If I got anything to say about it. my kids' kids will be learning in that selfsame little school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schools Without Pupils | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

Filmed with Colorado's Rocky Mountains, as a back-drop, Naked Spur recounts the trials of a Kansas rancher, Stewart, who pursues a desperate killer, Robert, Ryan, for the price on his head. After capturing the killer, he soon liquidates him (not without reason) and then departs with Janet Leigh for California, his pockets empty. All this intends to point up the moral that Stewart should never have tried to get a pecuniary reward in the first place...

Author: By E. H. Harvey, | Title: The Naked Spur | 3/19/1953 | See Source »

...Robert Smith; Columbia) is a shoddy little shocker that combines a futuristic theme with old-hat moviemaking. A quintet of characters in a Manhattan bar hears the news that the U.S.S.R. is atom-bombing the United States. In the ensuing carnage, the quintet-a tractor manufacturer (Robert Bice), a rancher (Erik Blythe), a Congressman (Wade Crosby) a TV reporter (Gerald Mohr) and a beautiful blonde (Peggie Castle)-are killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

...Rancher Joe Evans, a Baptist layman who has organized some of the Southwest's most successful camp meetings (TIME, July 30, 1951), was especially shocked. Camp meetings, said he, represent "real, undented religion." He added: "If the Episcopal Church endorses the things Wright said in his address to the lawyers, I think they are fundamentally unsound in their belief and doctrine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: El Paso Whingding | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

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