Word: steers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HOME AFFAIRS He will put his police into disorder. U. S. Cowboy Maestro Tex Austin. First amused, then indignant, the Wild West promoter was summoned to West London Police Court on the charge that in his rodeo he had "permitted an animal to be terrified, to wit. a steer." The steer had crashed into an exit gate of the rodeo arena, rebounded and dashed off bellowing with pain, to the alarm of British spectators who would scarcely have noticed dogs permitted to "terrify" a fox. "Things like that don't hurt a tough steer," snorted Tex Austin...
Near Miles City, Mont., Cowboy Mike Vial roped a steer, got his right wrist and left thumb caught in his lasso. Mike Vial got his thumb free, but the cavorting steer almost pulled his right hand off. To free himself, Mike Vial finished the job with his jackknife, rode to a hospital. Said he to attendants: "You can tell 'em the yearling cut my hand off, but it didn't get me out of the saddle...
...think, the best means of accomplishing the inevitable and unavoidable, for it at least holds out some hope of achieving the economic nationalism which Mr. Keynes believes will be eventually beneficial; best of all there is some hope that under Roosevelt we may for the present, anyway, steer clear of the emotional concomitants of economic nationalism which result in Fascism of the Hitler type. NEMO...
...unsuccessful, the Administration would resort to the issue of paper currency. Or if not this, at least that the fear of such inflationary measures, leading to distrust of the currency, would be sufficient to cause business men to delay commitments, banks to fear withdrawals, and the public generally to steer clear of bonds, especially government bonds. The whole question of whether paper currency inflation, once started, could be controlled, has been returned to the realm of theory by the realization that the government did not intend to start it. In retrospect, it is difficult to see what positive dangers existed...
...more fruitful time for educational stock-taking arrived last week when James Bryant Conant, the 40-year-old chemistry professor who succeeded to the big paneled office in University Hall, revealed in his first annual report to its Board of Overseers the new course which Harvard hopes to steer through the years ahead...