Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harmless Gentleman. The jury found against him. Said Mr. Justice Swift: "I have been over 40 years engaged in the administration of the law [but] I have never heard such dreadful, horrible, blasphemous and abominable stuff...
...outstanding poets (14th-19th Centuries), only two were "demonstrably" insane. The two: Cowper, who most of his life was subject to fits of melancholia and suicidal mania; and Swift, whose mind gave way in the last three years of his life...
...amid the dust and acrid smell of burning flesh, Bob Kleberg threaded his horse in & out of the milling hundreds of cherry-red cows and their calves. Lean-faced, gimlet-eyed, with the brim of his Stetson hat upswept in King Ranch fashion, Bob Kleberg told his vaqueros with swift gestures and quick Spanish phrases which cattle to "cut out" for branding. As a calf high-tailed it for the mesquite brush, the nimble cow ponies always outran it; a vaquero's lasso snaked out and around its neck, brought it thudding to the ground. While the calf still...
Tight Lip. Bob keeps a tight lip about the ranch's profits. But they can be roughly estimated. The 20 million pounds of beef sold this year should gross between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000. (The ranch sells virtually all its cattle to Swift & Co. to keep from driving down prices by open sales.) Sales of breeding bulls bring in another $150,000 or so. But the expenses are huge, too. Real estate taxes run around $200,000, gasoline and oil take $48,000, land-clearing $120,000. The payroll for the 500 employees is over...
...Yankees, as usual, relied on their Mutt & Jeff combination. The little man was swift, 5 ft. 5 Buddy Young, star Negro halfback of last year's University of Illinois team, who has kept enemy defenses loose and wide all season. With him as a decoy, big Spec Sanders, whose shoulder is higher than the top of Buddy's head, found it easier to rip inside tackle for big gains. Sanders, who didn't make the first team at the University of Texas, has gained more yards this year-1,384-than any other back in pro football...