Word: dorset
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simply anxious to preserve a new freedom he had found when the menagerie truck in which he, a $2,500 show lion, had been riding was wrecked in a road smash. While the wreck was being untangled, Wallace had trotted down the road and lain down, blinking at the Dorset sun, rolling now and then in the Dorset dust. When his keeper approached, over a hedge had leaped Wallace and brought up in puzzlement before Nelly's calf...
Hopkins, Thomas Hardy's Dorset...
...body, for it is at these ports that the old blood is exchanged for new and sent back to the heart for distribution. Every throb of railroad policy that emanates from the heart is felt in all parts of the system, even down to minute capillaries like the Manchester, Dorset and Granville Railroad with 6 miles of track. And when the great trunk lines get together to decide what proportion of their freight receipts the M. D. & G. R. R. is to receive for carrying the freight those 6 miles, they are pretty likely to have their own way. Said...