Word: steers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Linderman, who was born in Bridger, Mont., won his cowboy championship title by spending eleven months or so last year on a 75,000-mile rodeo-circuit tour and winning more prize money ($33,674) than any other rodeo man in the combined events: saddle bronc riding, steer wrestling, bareback riding and calf roping. The San Antonio rodeo was Linderman's fifth of the young 1954 season, after performances at Denver, Fort Worth, Houston and El Paso. This week he pushes to Baton Rouge. His prize money for the year so far: more than...
...Pope obviously cannot steer the bark of St. Peter alone. It is false to assume that he only has to say something into a speaking tube to alter course or speed. The officers and the crew, while disciplined and obedient, have views of their own that the man on the bridge cannot ignore. The Pope's advisers reflect all shadings of opinion. Among notable men around the Pope...
...dropped out of Howard County Junior College after one semester to groom her 4-H animals for this year's shows, had her first taste of glory last February. Then, one of her steers won the grand-championship at Fort Worth's Southwestern Exposition, and was sold to Texas Publisher Amon Carter for $6,000. Sue dutifully turned the money over to her family, hard hit by the drought. At Chicago last week, Hotelman Albert Pick bid $20 a lb. for Sue's steer, highest price ever paid at the Chicago show.* Sue, who paid...
...highest price ever paid at a livestock show. At Kansas City, Mo., in 1946, a Hereford steer brought...
...built around spinning gyroscopes, whose "rigidity in space" makes them try to keep pointing in a fixed direction. An instrument hitched to one or more of these gyros can tell how much the airplane is turning or canting, almost as if it were hitched to space itself. Similar gyros steer torpedoes and airborne guided missiles...