Word: steering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Folls: Wait (N) defeated C. B. H. Hollister '29, 5-2; Howard (N) defeated D. L. Modell '30, 5-4; M. U. Copland '29 defeated Steer (N), 5-4; Howard (N) defeated C. B. H. Hollister '29, 5-3; Steer (N) defeated D. L. Modell '30, 5-2; M. U. Copland '29 defeated Waite (N), 5-3; Steer (N) defeated C. B. H. Hollister '29, 5-3; Wait (N) defeated J. S. Qettinger '30, 5-4; Howard (N) defeated M.U. Copland...
...showing the efficacy of dodging the singles that bask beneath the arches. How to break a rudder rope and not get it tangled with the bow, how to get into a shell after a crew has pushed off, without adopting the woeful methods of Buster Keaton, and how to steer a course nor'nor' east by nor' through the murky haze of the basin will be considered in every detail. The hardest feat to master, that of coxing two miles in a tight race and keeping the remnants of vocal cords in their natural position, will be the final triumph...
...growths. It ranks with the Carolinas as a lumber State, not far behind piney Georgia, whose output is more than a billion board-feet per annum. And, though few people know it, huge herds of beef cattle range the plains of Florida's northern interior. Many a Texas steer, like many a tired tycoon, goes to Florida...
...enter Dick for the grand champion prize. Clarence consented, but would not lead Dick before Walter Biggar, who traveled from Dalbeattie, Scotland, to do the judging. Emma Goecke, 17, his big sister, took Dick to judgment. Clarence was sick to his stomach. If Dick won the grand champion steer prize, that would be Dick's end. He would be sold at auction (as is the live stock show's custom), killed and eaten at some rich Christmas carouse...
Another Marshall County boy, Keith Collins, 15, won the other best coveted prize of the live stock show, the carcass contest. The McCaulley Market of Mt. Kisco, N. Y., paid him $6.75 a pound ($4,873.50) for his yearling steer Benny, killed and dressed...