Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While bunting streamed, a band blared and the citizenry gawped, 64-year-old Mark Sullivan, stalwart standpat of U. S. political journalism, rode up the main street of West Chester, Pa. as its No. 1 local-boy-who-made-good. Purpose: To top off his 50 years as a newspaper man (and boost his autobiography, The Education of an American) by doing a day's work in the town where he began. Because both papers on which he worked have been long defunct, he had to do it on their rival sheet, the daily Local News, under Editor Edwin...
...drains the Powder River grass country where Western history was made. It watered the great ranch of the English-owned Powder River Cattle Co., which once ran 60,000 head of cattle. Along its valley rode 55 raiders from the big ranches of the South who came to fight the Johnson County...
...Aircraft rode out Depression II on the crest of an armament boom. Earnings...
...division point on a large system, and the train-smell and train-noise filled the air constantly. Petit Vag used to watch the heavy freights groan out of the yards, shout defiance to nature and the elements, and attack the mountain grades--and many times his heart rode the cowcatcher of a mighty 16-driver Mallet engine, or nestled in the cupola of a caboose. Every night at 8.30 he lay in his bed and slept not until he heard the roaring exhaust of the Limited as it snatched its Pullmans westward. By the time he was in the second...
...Deacons in scoring position, but nothing happened. Left guard Sam Binnian, the best linesman on the field, tore through time and again to nail Moore and Foster in their tracks. Likewise, Jack McClure's end runs to the left were efficiently stopped by end Ham Daughaday, who rode the Deacon interferes right into the runner...