Word: wranglers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prediction. Besides colorful invective and simple talk for simple people, Jim Ferguson, onetime cowhand and horse-wrangler, possesses a splendid flair for bluffing. At a judicious moment last week he released an article called "The Result," in which, with a column of figures that would have impressed the average farmer whether he could read or not, it was told that "Ma" Ferguson would receive exactly 453,884 votes; Dan Moody exactly 307,887; and Lynch Davidson about 63,000. Moody men guffawed. Lynch Davidson growled about "political liars." Jim Ferguson hitched up his pants and hustled on to wind...
...chief Rhinelander attorney is Isaac Newton Mills. He was born in Connecticut in 1851; in school he was known as a wrangler; at Amherst he had a reputation for vigor, for honesty, for plain speech. Admitted to the bar in 1876, he began to practice law in Mount Vernon and Manhattan. For six years he was an appellate justice...
Again in the footnote you say that the term "Tripos" is applied especially to mathematics. I think you are confusing this with the term "Wrangler," which was used in the days when the results of Tripos examinations were published in the order of marks gained and in the Mathematical Tripos the men were referred to as "Senior Wrangler," "5th Wrangler" and so on, depending entirely on their position in the list...
...easy to become the national champion bull-stabber. One usually begins young, as. a horse-wrangler or cattle-hand. One learns to be fearless with animals. Then one probably becomes apprenticed to a cuadrilla, or troupe, under some great matador. One watches, practices...
Reginald McKenna is 60 years of age and a Senior Wrangler of Cambridge. He became Financial Secretary to the Treasury in 1905, President of the Board of Education 1907, First Lord of the Admiralty 1908, Home Secretary 1911, Chancellor of the Exchequer...