Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the chimps were thoroughly accustomed to working for money, Dr. Wolfe made the currency more complicated. Blue chips dropped into the chimp-o-mat yielded two grapes instead of one. A red chip was worth a drink of water. The chimps soon mastered this system...
...experiments with chimpanzees and the even more primitive cebus monkey proved that these animals can understand symbols representing food, water or piggyback rides. Therefore they have the basic tools for rudimentary thinking...
...artesian wells and 225 windmills supply enough water daily for a city...
Robert the First. Kleberg the First put the gaunt ranch back on its feet. To combat drought, which periodically killed off thousands of cattle, in 1893 Kleberg drilled the first artesian well in those parts. He built the first of the concrete water troughs for cattle which are now sprinkled around the ranch. He brought in English Shorthorns and Herefords, the railroad (Missouri Pacific), and founded Kingsville. He built the Santa Gertrudis main house...
...only how to live off the land (fried snakes for Christmas dinner), but also how to make life a merry hell for the horse thieves. With feet bound in leaves, to make no tracks, the children do the villains out of their horses, their boots, their food, their water; they shadow their prey pitilessly in their effort to get out of the wilderness...