Word: boar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House has traditions--the boar's head march and the Master's solo at the Christmas dinner, for example--but the House is not tradition-bound. As Master Taylor says, "We have no particular specialty; we are interested in whatever students want to do, and we try to find the means by which they...
...year-old student at a high school in Quitman, Ga., Farm Boy Wesley Patrick got a class project-the care of a gilt and a boar. He did so well that he won second prize at a local swine show. Much encouraged. Patrick asked his vocational agriculture teacher how he might get into full-time farming. Advised Teacher Drawdy Willis: "Develop and expand...
Since he won his gilt and boar prizes, Wes Patrick's success pattern has been sure and steady. Even before his June 1953 high-school graduation, he persuaded his father to let him work part of the family farm, planted six acres of oats and crimson clover, planted ten acres of sweet potatoes and corn and marketed ten hogs. He finished the first year by copping county awards in corn production and winter grazing. In 1953. after his father, Paul Patrick. 53. had moved to another farm. Wes bought the 130-acre family farm for $10,400, promising...
...raisers commonly put a boar in with a herd of fattening sows; otherwise, on coming into heat, they would rush around and wear off a lot of market-value fat. The boar pacifies them and, in the bargain, creates the main source of Releasin...
...film Death of a Cyclist) was picked up while making a new picture with U.S. Filmactress Betsy (Marty) Blair, wife of Hollywood's Gene Kelly. While the Falangist newspaper Arriba hysterically blamed the "hostile foreign press" for instigating violence, Dictator Franco postponed his dearly loved annual deer and boar hunt to study his people's heartbeat...