Word: sheepskins
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...life's great dramas is scheduled to take place this morning when the Harvard Advocate and Yale's Harkness Hoot abandon the sheepskin for the pigskin in a game of touch football on the Old Campus Field...
...will for peace, but let us support it with an unbreakable resolution to hold force in check whenever it is not in the service of right." Reporters who have seen many state funerals in Paris in the past five years, noted one novelty: three figures in long white sheepskin coats carrying a wooden box. They were Rumanian peasants, come to scatter Rumanian earth in the tomb of Louis Barthou, honorary citizen of Rumania since last summer (TIME, July 9). Hardly had the crowds streaked off to their homes than the Doumergue Cabinet took up the ugly aftermath of the assassinations...
...mere act of earning a sheepskin is not so hard; it takes only time (four years) and money (a couple of thousands, or so) and then the master technician of the future generation finds the gates of a not-too-receptive world opening...
Iraq- "Squat and thickset, with head disproportionately large, the woman stands holding her hands before her breast. She wears the traditional garment of sheepskin and her hair, gathered in a heavy roll, is confined by a fillet of lapis lazuli inlay. The eyes are of shell and lapis lazuli and the eyebrows are inlaid with bituminous paste." Thus did Dr. Charles Leonard Woolley report one of his latest finds. A popeyed, club-footed little figure of alabaster, 10 in. high, found in a soldier's grave with its head touching the blade of the warrior's bronze...
...Albuquerque, N. Mex. a thief broke into the house of George Martin, stole a jacket, a mattress, a sheepskin coat, a pair of overalls. Next day he brought them back, left a note...