Word: furred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large number of monographs by him include "Character and Influence of the Fur Trade in Wisconsin", "Western State-Making in the Revolutionary Era," "The Policy of France Toward the Mississippi Valley," "The West as a Field for Historical Study," and "Dominant Forces in Western Life...
...Churchill, Canada's new wheat port on Hudson Bay (TIME, Sept. 14), 30 men meet regularly for jump-bids and approach-forces throughout the winter. For one of these there had to be a substitute last week; Arsene Turquetil had laid aside his cards, put on his fur cap and gone down south to Montreal. Arsene Turquetil was hard to replace. He is not only a good bridge player; he is also a good shot, a fine musher, and Canada's famed, revered ''Arctic Bishop." He was going to Montreal to be consecrated as Vicar Apostolic of Hudson Bay which...
...Manhattan, while trying to escape from jail disguised as a visiting church worker, Mrs. Jennie Goldstein, plump, fur-coated, wearing horn-rimmed spectacles and with prayer books and a bundle of religious tracts tucked under her arm, paused and twittered to Head Keeper Edward A. Glennon, "It's a very fine day the good Lord has given us, isn't it?" "A fine day, indeed!" roared Head Keeper Glennon as Mrs. Goldstein turned to leave by the prisoners' entrance instead of the visitors', and clapped her back in her cell...
...Fur Seals Controversy," Professor Baxter, Harvard...
Treasure Hunt. Few weeks ago Pilot William H. Graham and Mrs. Edna Christofferson, widow of the early barnstormer Silas Christofferson, took off from Seattle to seek the Baychimo, icebound, abandoned, somewhere in the Arctic Ocean. Aboard it, they believed, was "a million dollars worth of furs." Last week airplanes were sent out from Vancouver to hunt for the treasure-hunters, missing somewhere in British Columbia. Meanwhile Captain Sydney A. Cornwall, master of the Baychimo, arrived in Fairbanks and revealed that the fur cargo had already been salvaged by crew and natives, that he was sure his ship had since sunk...