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...take it from the parenthesis that the printing confused Mr. R. It certainly seems to have. Let us ask him, what precisely did you mean by this word "shoddy"? Webster defines it as "a variety of reclaimed wool, obtained by pulling apart worsteds or woolens." Now if Mr. R. is using the word in its proper sense (something one can never assume with your writers), just what is he implying? That Miss Peruty is woolyheaded? Or that her arguments can be picked apart? Just what does he think this whole thing is, a joke...
...former dyed-in-the-wool conservative, I now wildly applaud the new changes in the Mass. Expecting the worst, I instead found myself involved in the most fascinating experience...
...particularly warm sweater this year is "boiled wool," in which a large sweater is preshrunk to wearable size, increasing the density of the material in the process...
Most people in Uruguay really could not accept that they had had too much of a good thing, and were faced with shattering economic collapse. They reminded each other proudly that beef export is up, chose to forget that wool export, the country's other major product, is generally down. Despite the fact that as much as 50% of a man's salary may be withheld against social benefits, and that much of this withholding is illegally used by capital-starved companies, politicians anxious to please the people called for more benefits...
...Sholokhov at Scotland's Saint Andrews University in April 1962, the first Russian writer to be so honored in a British university since Turgenev's honorary doctorate at Oxford in 1879. I was born and grew up in Rostov. That coat of felt and goat's wool is surely familiar to me, even though it does not at all belong in any groves of academe...