Word: auction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Loot piled up in Radcliffe "lost and found" closets during the past two years will pass over the auction counter at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Cabot Hall game room...
...auction, held by the Student Government Association, will benefit the Radcliffe Student Government Grant-inAid fund. Student council members will have charge of carting the articles from the dormitories and Fay House to Cabot...
Thompson has probably done more than anyone else to make Herefords the highest-priced cattle breed. In the last 42 years Auctioneer Thompson has knocked down $250 million worth of cattle at more than 7,000 sales all over the U.S. His record $506,000 for a single day's selling, set at the auction of Colorado Rancher Dan Thornton's Hereford herd in 1947, still stands (TIME, Oct. 6, 1947), as does the $65,000 bid at which he sold the prize bull Baca Duke II last year. Only eight Hereford bulls have ever been sold...
...practiced the auctioneer's spiel as he did his farm chores, at 19 apprenticed himself to an auctioneer for three years, at nothing a year, and became an expert judge of fine cattle. "Doctors may make mistakes, patients die, and laymen don't know why," explains the colonel. "But on the auction stand you're talking to men who know as much...
...makes a wire recording of everything he says on the block, refunds the buyer's cash if he has misrepresented an animal in any way. At 64 the colonel is still going strong, this week drove 200 miles to preside over an auction near Denver. Says he: "If I could have looked ahead and seen the long trips, and sleepless nights, I might have thought better of that walking cultivator...