Word: tarred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government to send experts to identify the body. Then suddenly Mr. Power effaced himself, retired into hiding, lay low. When eminent pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury and London Coroner Ingleby Oddie finally took it upon themselves to open the casket, they found it filled with clods of earth, hunks of tar...
...strong little sons move freely about the town, one in particular, Walt, the second oldest, bringing home much news of teamsters and ferryboatmen, or?the gravity gone from his ruddy-brown face, his tar-black hair cocked with excitement?of how the Marquis de Lafayette picked him up and kissed...
...while he was studying at Iowa State College that William Hornaday, a vigorous, tar-haired Hoosier, came upon the works of Naturalist John J. Audubon and determined thenceforth to devote himself, not to natural history in a scientist's closet, but to discovering and teaching popularly the wonders of the animal kingdom. He studied zoology and the keeping of museums in Europe. He obtained a post as taxidermist at the U. S. National Museum in Washington. In 1886 it suddenly drawned on him that the buffalo-hide hunters had nearly completed their task of exterminating the once-thunderous bison herds...
...site of ancient Asine (Bay of Messenia, Greece). His music is in his own vocal cords. His athletic interests and abilities were demonstrated by his work on the Swedish Olympic Committee, and last winter when he plunged into a Stockholm canal and rescued a drowning U. S. jack-tar (TIME, Feb. 15). His religious militancy had scope last year in organizing and conducting the World Church Conference at Stockholm (TIME...
...What cousin of Edward of Wales once rescued a drowning U. S. jack-tar...