Word: werden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chanfour-to-Cushing). Last year Jane Addams and Edwin Arlington Robinson likewise died too late, William H. Woodin was in time. Last week this unique race between Death and the alphabet closed as the editors of the Dictionary completed a twelve-year labor, published their 20th and final volume (Werden-to-Zunser). Also last week the editors violated their inflexible alphabetical order for the first time...
...Forstmann is regarded as the fore most originator and maker of high-grade woolens in the U. S. He built the American Mills at Passaic, N. J., 30 years ago against the advice of experts who told him. that such woolens as his company made in Werden-on-Ruhr, Germany, could not be duplicated. He created Imperatrice and Beatrice (broadcloths) and most of the vogue-starting woolens including Marvella, Gerona, Charmeen and Chonga. He works alone in designing his fabrics and seeking colors from such sources as the plumage of birds in the Museum of Natural History. On his Kiel...
...join the American Federation of Labor, obtaining a permanent injunction against it. His firm even hinted that the factory would be moved unless its laborers behaved. Weaver Forstmann is proud of the fact that his forefathers signed the roster of the Weavers Guild of Flanders and later moved to Werden, Germany, where his great-great-grandfather and Johann Friederich Huffmann bought the Abbey of St. Ludger the Great because it had a fine carp pond which furnished water for the making of woolens...