Word: sowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bitterly did King Amanullah of Afghanistan regret, last week, that he had ever sought to sow "reforms" among his people (TIME, Sept. 10), for it began to seem that he had reaped a revolution quite capable of toppling down his throne...
Halfpenny 1? Sow...
...notice in a letter from A. Landers, TIME, Oct. 29, page 4, that he asks Alvin G. Anderson in a rather sarcastic way if he has heard that little one: "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow...
Evidently Mr. Landers is a bit behind "TIME" as you will see by examining the enclosed clipping descriptive of just such a purse made out of a sow's ear by the well known chemical engineers, Arthur D. Little, Inc., of Cambridge, Mass...
Making the silk from a sow's ear was a chemical tour de force not at all practical. Artificial silk is made from vegetable matter, cellulose...