Word: pelted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fleas and lice cannot penetrate it. Each hair is tipped with black, slate blue about half its length, merging into a delicate pearl grey. Difficult to capture alive, chinchillas are shot by Indians with blow-guns using poisoned darts. The wound is only a pinprick, does not injure the pelt. Price of each pelt may be as low as $50 for a coarse, short-haired specimen, $500 for a particularly fine...
...Olive, Jr.; George W. Overton, Jr.; Arthur W. Page, Jr.; Donald G. Parrot; Robert M. Peebles; Samuel F. Peirce; John R. Richards; David Richardson; Russell J. Ryan, Jr.; Marion B. Seevers, Jr.; Robert H. Shepard; Kenneth M. Spence, Jr.; S. Harris Squibb; Robinson Stevens; Allen E. Susman; Peter Van Pelt; George H. Wadsworth; John A. Waldo, Jr.; Lawrence H. Waterman; James F. Whitehead, Jr.; Malcolm R. Wilkey; Hamlin L. Williston; Samuel N. Wolbach, 3d.; and William L. Wood...
...Chelyuskin; and Eugene Feoderoff, who has been studying magnetic waves in the Arctic for three years. They will have an immense assortment of equipment: four tons or so of powdered chicken and similar foodstuffs, brandy, tea, caviar, a windmill to generate electricity for power, light, and cooking, skis, wolf-pelt sleeping bags, guns, sledges, a phonograph with 15 records, radio, chess set, cigarets (cigars for holidays), cameras, books, and a dog to warn of bears. Everything will be divided into five caches so that a sudden crumpling of the ice-floe cannot cause disaster...
...Reserve. Kans., Wilbur Peck exhibited a pelt to prove his story that he had found two wolves fighting in front of his house "presumably to be first in line at the door...
...Sheriff Wilcox chagrin they promptly dropped their weapons, sheepishly filed out to be arrested for contempt of court. Some 100 women sitters in the Bernard Schwartz Cigar Corp. factory gave the officers more trouble, kicked, squealed, squirmed as they were driven out. When watching sympathizers began to pelt the police with rock-cored snowballs, 20 mounted officers charged into the crowd with nightsticks swinging. At that, Detroit's sympathy began swinging back to the strikers, and United Automobile Workers' young President Homer Martin seized the occasion to threaten a city-wide general automobile strike unless the police raids...