Word: furred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...allergy to some substance caused the sneezing, Washington doctors scratched her skin some 80 times, rubbed into the scratches hay pollen, flower pollen, pulverized cat fur, dog hair, house dust, food extracts, dozens of substances...
...when Hendrik Hudson in his 80-ton Half Moon sailed 143 miles up from the sea to its site, Albany has had a maritime history. In 1686, when it received the charter which today makes it the oldest incorporated city in the U. S., the little Dutch fur trading post already was a prominent port...
About the size of a black bear, weighing 200 to 300 Ib., the giant panda has long, creamy fur, black forelegs and shoulders, black ears, black circles around its eyes, cat-like feet. It eats bamboo shoots. Natives call it beishung (white bear) and scientists call it Ailuropus melanoleucus. So scarce is it that when the Roosevelts shot theirs, inhabitants of the nearest village, 25 miles distant, had never seen or heard of such a creature...
...Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden gently deplored Dictator Adolf Hitler's tearing up of the Versailles Treaty clause which placed German rivers under international control (TIME, Nov. 23), saying: "Despite their assurance given last year of no fur ther moves without previous consultation, the German Government have once again abandoned the procedure of negotiation in favor of unilateral action...
...factors are not, as students of the Hudson's Bay school of literature may be lieve, masterful Scots at lonely fur-trading posts. In the modern business sense they are a cross between financing companies and service organizations, having evolved in the U. S. from the oldtime commission merchants. James Talcott, Inc. will make market studies, find selling agents, provide storage and showroom facilities, handle the clerical detail of foreign or domestic shipments. It does not, as the commission merchant used to do, actually sell the manufacturer's goods. Like all factors, James Talcott is primarily concerned with...