Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cataloguers at the Library of Congress last week recorded a new entry: a mile-long microfilm of every Sears, Roebuck catalogue, from the slim booklet of 1892 to 1956's Spring-Summer four-pounder, 1,360 pages long. The film replaced dog-eared issues frayed by generations of historians, playwrights, economists, artists and others seeking a picture of the U.S. past...
...year micro-record is a reminder that Americans were offered and bought some odd artifacts-crocodile sofas, mourning handkerchiefs, dog-powered butter churns, solid gold toothpicks with ear-spoon attached, mustache cups ("appropriate gift for the man of elegance") and bosom boards (wooden stiffeners used to shape men's shirts for ironing). In 1905, Sears was offering the "Princess Bust Developer," a bell-shaped cup attached firmly to a handle, and was telling women that IF NATURE HAS NOT FAVORED YOU, the developer would...
...enough, the picture also has a plot. The story connects all these curious elements in much the same way as the numbered dots in a newspaper puzzle can be linked up to form an animal figure. In this case the observer soon realizes that he is working on a dog...
...Stranger. In Asheville, N.C., asked by police who picked him up on a disorderly conduct charge how many times he had been arrested, Herman Banks said that he didn't know: "My wife has had me up here so often my dog follows the police cruisers...
...Live and let live" is a more accurate statement of the law of the jungle than the commonly-accepted "dog-eat-dog" philosophy, William L. Brown Jr., and Edward O. Wilson, research zoologists of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, said in a recent research paper...