Word: stetson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gypped his hands out of "everything he thought they would stand . . . sold them cheap whiskey at bonded prices for what little money they did draw." In 1917 cotton went to 50?. Old Man Town, in his $75 custom-made boots, his faded wash pants, his wide Stetson and his 50? work gloves, was a Cotton King. Mrs. Town decided that her daughters should become Delta Queens. Old Man Town's lawyer bought them "a wine-colored brick monstrosity" on Memphis' Speedway. The girls were enrolled in Miss May's Select School for Fashionable Young Ladies...
...microcosm of the whole world of science, the Bio Lab contains a thousand variegated experiments and in one corner a group studies the flight mechaniism of birds while in another room Professor Henry Stetson plots the ocean bed. In the library during moments away from texts, the old wheeze is whispered about the Freshman who asked the libarian, "Do you have 'Sex and Internal Secretions,'" and was speedily answered, "Of course...
Astronomer Harlan True Stetson of M.I.T. and other scientists think this theory is entirely reasonable. But the combined influence of potassium and cosmic rays does not now appear adequate to explain spontaneous mutations. It is possible, notes Dr. Failla, that relatively "very small amounts of radiation are much more genetically effective than large ones...
...data together, is as Texan as the steers he celebrates. An anti-industrialist and individualist, he once went to jail rather than pay a $2 fine for violation of what he considered an unreasonable parking regulation. He likes to be called Pancho (or even Don Pancho), sports a white Stetson and a buckskin watch fob. His father and grandfather before him were vaqueros of the south Texas brush country; in that country Dobie was born, 52 years ago. He spent his first 15 years in a ranch boy's intimacy with cattlemen and cattle handling, went on to college...
Among the many special collections which will be housed in the new library are those of Charles Eliot Norton; Charles Sumner and Harold Murdock, father of Professor Kenneth Murdock, Leverett House master; and the gifts of Thomas Carlyle, James Byrne, Mrs. Brandegee, Herbert Weir Smythe, John Stetson, George Herbert Palmer, Edward Percival Merritt, the Gay and William A. White families, and many other donors...