Word: rug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that suicides were not uncommon. One father killed his young family. Dr. Grenfell had to teach them how to live. He set them to work planting turnips, cabbages, tomatoes for protection against scurvy, established cooperative stores, built trade schools, orphanages, imported sheep and goats. started home industries-mink breeding, rug-making, walrus-tusk carving...
...there were awful atrocities The lightest of the punishments inflicted was hanging head downwards for hours and 50 lashes on the soles of the feet." Not the account of a Nazi prison camp, but just one of the many experiences that make the life of Haratune Tashjian, a rug-dealer on the Square, read like a book...
...lush Oriental rug, a set of expensive linen damask tablecloths, and several old issues of the CRIMSON valued at $75 apiece, were destroyed by the hungry jaws of 200 black mice which were dumped into the CRIMSON building last week by a vandal yet unidentified...
Ringmaster of this gigantic art circus was a talkative, six-foot, grey-thatched former philosophy professor named Arthur Upham Pope who gave up philosophy 15 years ago because he liked Persian rugs better, soon found that he could make five times his professor's salary as an expert rug appraiser...
...threw the pants on the shower floor with the water turned on full. Summoned away from his impromptu washtub by some errand. he was absent for about a quarter of an hour and returned to find langorous waves breaking slowly over the far edge of his rug...