Word: ranchos
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...hours the siege continued. At last a portentous puffing was heard. A troop train sent by President Calles to rescue his friend, Ex-President Obregon, steamed up, commanded by Generals Bernal and Montano. Soon the Yaqui fled. General Obregon, his equanimity unruffled, slept that night at his extensive rancho...
United States. The greatest sensation of the year in human fossils came to light on the Rancho Cunajo, near Los Angeles, Calif. A construction company, building a sewer, turned up a petrified skull and bone fragments of five human frames in a sand pit 23 feet below the surface. The strata are of the Pleistocene age, antedating the last great ice age, which ended at least 15,000 to 20,000 years ago. Several trained scientists happened to be near, including Dr. John C. Merriam, President of the Carnegie Institution; Dr. Robert T. Hill, geologist; Dr. William A. Bryan, Director...
...RANCHO, originally a Spanish-American word, signifying a hunting lodge, or cattle-station, in a wood or desert far from the haunts of man. In Washington, with their accustomed ingenuity in corrupting words and meanings, the Americans use the appellation for a place of evil report...
...admirable magazine contains so many interesting articles that it is not possible to notice them all. There is nothing in the number that is not well up to the usual high standard of the Outing articles, while the number and variety of the pieces make the number unusually interesting. Rancho del Muerto is a serial story begun this month. The scene is laid in Arizona and the work is in the best style of romantic story telling. Following this is a pretty little poem entitled "Recompense," by Annie L. Brakenridge; the "Pheasant in Old Britain," by Charles Turner; a very...