Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nine Army bombers soared out over the Atlantic for another crack at the Mt. Shasta. Fifty bombs of 100 Ib. and 300 Ib. were dropped from 5,000 ft. around the target. Only two hits were scored which damaged the rusty freighter hardly at all. The Mt. Shasta still rode high on a calm sea. Two Coast Guard cutters thereupon went alongside, spent two hours firing one-pounders pointblank into her below the water line. At last she filled with water, sank in 150 fathoms. The Navy's mocking grin at the Army's aerial coast defense...
...been President of Mexico for six years, but heavy-jawed Plutarco Elias Calles is still The Jefe (Boss), the strongest man in Mexico. Last week Boss Calles rode high in his saddle. In an effort to end the country's financial difficulties he had himself mada President of the Bank of Mexico, became what Hermann Schmitz is in Germany: the country's "money tsar...
Bronco riding was the big event and an outlaw horse of the meanest breed was Five Minutes to Midnight. Earl Thode of Belvidere, S. Dak. won the most coveted prize among cowmen when he rode the bucking beast against all comers without changing hands on the rein, losing a stirrup or pulling leather. In the "bulldogging" contest Mike Hastings of Lobo, Tex. took 22 1/10 sec. to overtake a Texas longhorn. In bulldogging the steer gets a 30 ft. start, the 'dogger leaps from his horse to the steer's head, throws it on its side, bites...
...appearance; only her keen blue eyes belie her look of somewhat stolid placidity. Though you would never guess it from her voice she comes from Virginia, but her father moved the family to a Nebraska ranch, near Red Cloud, when she was eight. Instead of going to school she rode her pony around the country, getting acquainted with her polyglot neighbors: Swedes, Danes, Norwegians, Bohemians, Germans, French Canadians. "I used to ride home in the most unreasonable state of excitement; I always felt as if they had told me so much more than they said-as if I had actually...
...defense to score seven goals. One goal he made after the head of his mallet came off, by turning the stick upside down and hitting the ball with the handle-a trick he had seen performed by Tommy Hitchcock ten years ago. His comrades made seven more. Though they rode des perately, the Argentines scored only eleven times. The winning edge was as much a matter of horseflesh as it was teamwork. About 20 of the Argentine's 37 mounts had distemper...