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...higher, slower and shorter in stride than that of a standard bred horse. She has four white stockings, a white star on her forehead and a white snip on her nose. Her black tail is cropped; on her black mane, in the show ring, are knots of red wool to accent the curve of her neck. In her stall she shows traces of the nervousness which is noticeable in all progeny of her mother. She regards all small objects as likely to be edible and wears a wire muzzle to prevent her chewing her blanket off. The wide margin...
Into Tibet, into the southern part of Morocco, hitherto difficult of access, up the Andes, went colporteurs. Some things they took in exchange for Scriptures: soap, wool, toasted chestnuts, boiled potatoes, fish, bananas. Russia is the only land where the Society is not countenanced. In nearby countries it finds its sales increased. In France, home of many an expatriate, the Society sold 39,261 Bibles in Russian...
...less of a myth. Strange as it may seem to those brought up on the Dartmouth outdoor tradition, hundreds of men graduated from the college without knowing a telemark from a gelandesprung. Skiing was left to a comparatively small group of outdoor enthusiasts of the dyed-in-the-wool sort...
...kind of literature coming into her borders. If she (or he) has I shall be like "the boy the calf ran over." If not. I rise to protest that it is tyrannical to make a poor prairie farmer who can get only 4 1/2? per Ib. for his wool pay $8 for TIME when a Californian who is protected by a 31? tariff can get the same publication...
...contact with the atmosphere, the liquid is changed to a cloudlike vapor. Under "unusual" atmospheric conditions, it is said, the tetrachloride joins with moisture in the air to form hydroscopic smoke particles containing hydrochloric acid which may damage leather or rubber compositions, bright dyes, cloth fabric other than wool. Chemical warfare experts of the Army stated that soldiers habitually handle Ti CL 4 without injury to hands or uniforms...